Re: Does the Death Penalty Save Lives?
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That we should keep it, because it does, in fact, free more wrongly convicted people than if we just sentenced them to life without parole?
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I accept your judgement that my point was poorly made. I should probably have made it a poll.
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If I were convicted of a capital crime I did not commit, I would rather be sentenced to death than to life in prison.
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Would you?
My point was that people sentenced to capital crimes who are exonerated through the appeals process should not be used as an argument against capital punishment -- since it is the impending death of the convicted that draws scrutiny to the process.
There is an unintended balance.
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