[Matt Ruff]

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I think if you ask the vast majority of freed wrongly convicted people what they'd prefer they'd take losing some number of years of their life to losing all of the rest of their life.

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If you're sentenced to life without parole, you *do* lose all the rest of your life.

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I don't deny its horrible to imprison someone unjustly, but to say its equivalent to killing them is ridiculous.

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My point is that if you take a system that wrongfully sentences people to death and turn it into one that wrongfully sentences people to life in prison, you've fixed the wrong problem.