• Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “So you’ve decided to go down the “Make up bullshit loaded questions that have no basis in reality” route. “

    Your question is akin to asking why abortion is legal when it kills babies. You’ve taken a complex subject and distilled it down to the parts that make your case seem right. Your question fundamentally has no basis in reality, juries are not wrong 50 percent of the time. We would not base our legal system on a flip of a coin.

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      9 months ago

      That doesn’t look like an answer to my question.

      My point is that a non-zero number of people are executed for crimes they did not commit.

      My question is: How many innocent people do you think it’s ok to execute in order to keep the death penalty available?

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        9 months ago

        I’ll preface by saying I don’t want any innocent people to die. But with any system designed by man it will have its flaws, and you must accept that there can be mistakes. My answer to is as few as possible to ensure justice is served to those who have blatantly killed the innocent like Kenneth Eugene Smith. May he rot in hell where he belongs.