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by yawboakye 4407 days ago
So you think the error margin of executing the death penalty (and justice in general) can be overlooked with impunity? When one man is being murdered for a purported crime of murder—the gravest crime of the land—doesn't a mistake lead to another crime for which the criminal (this time the judges) should be equally held accountable? But the judge is allowed to prescribe death for all sorts of persons, and goes unpunished (by death) if they made a wicked mistake.

It is for this probable mistake in enacting justice that makes the death penalty really spurious. You could kill an innocent man for no reason at all.