[LandonM]

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Thats an assinine statement. 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.

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

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I never said the two injustices were "equal", I simply said they are both equally bad.

Of course, if given the choice, I do believe that most sane people would obviously choose being wrongly incarcerated then released over being killed, however, I do not believe that either is any less unjust than the other.

It's sort of like saying that being assraped with a pinecone is "worse" than being assraped with a smooth dildo.
While you might prefer one over the other, both are equally egregious in nature so as to warrant the same degree of disgust. I do believe there is a point where something "can't be any worse". Wrongly incarcerating a man crosses that threshold, right there with wrongly killing one.
While the consequences and outcomes may vary, they're both just as bad.

Whenever I hear of a man being released after 5, 10, 20 (etc) years in prison when he was innocent, my reaction is precisely the same as it would be if we discovered that we had executed a totally innocent man.