Thread: Death Penalty?
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Old 13 Aug 2007, 09:18 am   #15 (permalink)
BOTLFEDLT1
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Default Re: Death Penalty?

Im opposed to the death penalty, on the simple grounds that you can never be sure you got the right person. How many cases have you seen where people where wrongly convicted, spent x number of years in prison then exonerated based on new technology (i.e. dna) or evidence? David Milgaard is a cdn who spent something like 20 years in jail for a murder he didnt commit and was only released recently. What would happen if he was executed? While you cant give him back those 20 years, its better than saying "Oops, Im sorry" to his family after you put him to death. To those that support the concept of an eye for an eye, what do you do at that point? Execute the judge, prosecutor and jury that sentenced an innocent man to die?

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