Mistakes can happen yes, and it's worse for 1 innocent person to be wrongly executed than 10 criminals go free. But while mistakes do happen, surely it's possile to actually get enough facts right to know somebody is guilty? There are risks associated with the death penalty, but the fact that currently such criminals can find their way back into society due to both human error AND an overly lenient system, is an equal, if not greater risk.
Human error can't be corrected, overly soft penalties can.
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