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Okay, now in terms of worth, which are more "worthy," the innocent or the guilty?

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Innocent people die when they are murdered by those who are guilty of capital crimes that result in the death penalty.

Innocent people are also wrongly conviceted of murder and given the death penalty.

Therefore innocent people are murdered by people who are guilty of capital crimes that result in the death penalty and innocent people are murdered when put to death by the state when they're wrongly convicted.

If less innocent people are murdered overall is it worth it for the state to murder guilty people when they're correctly convicted of taking another life? This is in lieu of incarceration most likely without parole for the rest of ones life.

So I guess your question is do I place a higher value on innocent people than guilty people in such circumstances? Yes.

I see your question as a "red herring" more or less but I guess your trying to state that all life has equal value irregardless of whether or not they murder other people. I don't agree but that seems to be a side issue but I could be convinced otherwise. I think society has more or less decided that the lives of people guilty of murdering others does not have the same value as those that don't murder other people for the most part by the mere fact that laws demand that those guilty of murder be removed from society one way or the other.


I'll amend my statement to state that the question relates to the value of innocent lives. At least that's how I interpret it.

I sort of think your trying to get me to defend the death penalty. I'm opposed to the death penalty. I prefer the incarceration without parole in lieu of the death penalty for those that murder the innocent.