As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
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