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Old 11-28-2007, 01:43 PM
Copernicus Copernicus is offline
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Default Re: This is why I\'m for the death penalty.

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innocent people get killed by the death penality though, not just bad people.

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name one. there isnt a single documented case of an innocent person being executed. Even if there has been, how do you trade off that extremely rare happenstance versus the innocent lives that the guilty would have taken if not executed, and those innocen ts that would have died if not for the deterrent effect (most recently estimated as 72 innocent lives saved per execution).
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