Navy Pride
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- Jul 11, 2005
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Using your logic, the death penalty and life in prison are equal in terms of deterrence. They serve the same purpose, and one is no better than the other.
Also, your statement that it is nearly impossible to execute an innocent person in the "age of DNA" assumes that DNA is present as evidence in all death penalty cases. It is not.
Additionally,
DNA’s Dirty Little Secret - Michael Bobelian
There have been many instances in which juries reached the wrong conclusion based on DNA evidence.
In capital cases DNA is effective a huge majority of the time. Life in prison without parole is very flawed because down the road some Liberal judge with grant parole...It happens all the time when killers without parole get out and murder again.