The death penalty

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Here are a few quotes from Amnesty International. I'll understand if they are taken with a grain of salt.

More than 75 men and women have been released from US death rows since 1972, after suffering the horror of being sentenced to death and incarcerated for a crime they did not commit.(7) Remedying these hideous mistakes took anywhere from two to 22 years; many of these innocent people came within hours of execution.

For every six prisoners executed since the reinstatement of the US death penalty, one innocent person was condemned to die and later exonerated. How many equally blameless but less fortunate prisoners still await execution - or have already gone to their deaths - may never be known.

I'm just not comfortable with those numbers. I understand the human desire for vengeance and I won't deny that there are some people who a part of me says "Fry 'em!" And like NA, if someone brutally murdered a loved one, there would be a strong desire to want to send them to hell myself. I just don't think it is my decision to make, as to who lives and dies. And god forbid, if I was wrong. Like I said earlier this isn't a mistake that can be corrected. If we are going to have to death penalty, it has to be onyl in cases where guilt is absolute. I don't know that our system can guarantee that.