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If you sentence a person to death in America, it will be years, perhaps decades, before that person is actually executed -- plenty of time to overturn a wrongful conviction. If they can't clear their name before they are killed, then I think it's very unlikely that they would have been able to clear their name before they died of natural causes. So I don't think the distinction you are making holds water.

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OK, so if execution takes so long that there's no meaningful difference from life imprisonment then why do it? Why spend the court costs when you could just let nature run its course?