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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Does this suggest that any measure that saves just one life is to be valued over the alternative? If you consider that in its fullness you'll see it for the foolishness it represents.

Everything is an equation and that includes all matters of life and death. Among the convicted there exists some fraction of innocents. Assume we go with life in prison. There will be additional murders and other attrocities commited by this group over their spared lives. Is that greater than the number of wrongly convicted? I'm guessing yes but it's not the end of the calculus. Execution has other pluses as well. Too bad cost savings is not one of them.