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Originally posted by Wumbo
They are not worthy of being called a human if they torture or murder another human being.
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Not that I even remotely agree
But even if we were to take that for fact, how can you determine they tortured or murdered another human being? By having them submit to our flawed justice system... To support the death penalty necessitates supporting executing innocent people, as due to our inherently flawed justice systems, human error, false/coerced confessions, and judges/prosecutors cutting corners to close cases, it is simply not feasible to eliminate false conviction. You simply
can't have one without the other.
Give the people accused of something truly heinous a life imprisonment, such that they have plenty time to prove their innocence if that is the case, or rot if they are guilty (not saying even THAT would eliminate innocent's losing their lives so to speak, but it would cut down on it drastically).