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Yeah. We have heard this all before.
One more time: Far more innocent people have died due to the State to NOT executing the death penalty when the convict was genuinely guilty of a capital offense than have died due to the State executing the death penalty when the convict was genuinely innocent of a capital offense.
The sooner you burn this statistical fact into your brain, the sooner you will stop wasting your time, my time, and everybody's time with this hackneyed bad argument.
How do you come up with that?
Even if true I'd argue that it doesn't really matter. The government shouldn't be in the business of killing innocent people, even if killing innocent people has the potential to save lives.
Edit: Thinking about it more, I'm even more against that line of reasoning. That opens up a huge can of worms about denying innocent people rights for the "greater good." Not something we should be doing.
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