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Im way too lazy to read all of this thread so if this has been addressed please forgive me.

1) I could deal with 100% of all executions being innocent. The only other punishment than the death penalty for crimes that could warrant it is life in prison without parole.

Now if I were innocent and convicted of a crime for which the punishment was death or life in prison I would choose death. The likelihood of winning on appeal is miniscule, and I don't think that life in prison is a life worth living at all.

Edit: I believe that people sentenced to death row and executed who have been proven innocent either on appeal or after their deaths account for less than 1% of all death sentences. So if 1 person in 100 gets screwed out of a better life than he would have otherwise had, so be it.