Re: Death Penalty Article
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Once convicted of capital murder....
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But that's just it. The whole premise starts with assigning values and probabilities to the mistakes of letting a murderer free or an innocent man getting the death penalty.
Your point about low recitivism is interesting though. I suppose it makes sense; I probably have watched too many CSI's and L&O's. But even if the wrongfully freed murderer killed just one (more) innocent person, that mistake then equals the mistake of giving that innocent person the death penalty. My number of 15 more murders was simply used for gruesome effect.
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