Re:When murderers were hanged quickly (2014)
by umvi on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:51PM
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The rate is sufficiently low enough if it is lower than the collateral damage caused by not executing exceptionally bad people.
Re:When murderers were hanged quickly (2014)
by michaelmrose on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:37PM
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The number of people for whom this is true is probably so low its not worth bending our laws, ethics, and souls into knots to try to get these people.
Humans are fallible and therefore incapable of creating an infallible justice system.
Allowing any death penalty means murdering some number of innocent people to "get" a greater number of bad people who you already have locked up.
So answer the question. How many innocent people are sufficiently low collateral damage and stop pretending we can only execute bad people.