The death penalty

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

And I'll never understand the mindset of someone who is so pro-life being able to support the death penalty when the person involved may be a totally innocent life. Death is death.

I'm on the fence about the death penalty. There's still too great of a chance that an innocent person will die. But I think if the person comes out and admits it and has zero remorse s/he should. Going to prison is supposed to be a punishment, a place to sit and think about what you did. Someone with no remorse is just wasting tax payers money.

There is a distinct difference to me between "maybe" (especially when they are found guilty through the course of the law) and "most certainly innocent" in regards to the abortion issue.

But in order to not digress-

Does someone have any accurate (as non-biased as possible) stats on how many people have been executed who were later exonerated? I still don't buy this notion that we are going along willy nilly killing innocent people with the death penalty.

Why bother with a trial and penalty phase if we are then just going to freak out at the notion that "maybe" someone was not guilty-