Quote: I feel the need to ask Larry, is 1 wrongly convicted person put to death too much? I am for the death penalty but I do find the recent number of people formerly on death row that have now been exonerated through DNA testing disturbing. Not that I know any of them but what if that were you or me? Does it then become too many? Not trying to be confrontational just asking.
Is one wrongly convicted person sent to prison for life too much? Is it ok for an innocent man to spend 50 years in jail? Are you willing to accept that? Are we going to demand 100% perfection in the legal system before anyone can be held accountable? If we demand it for capital punishment why not for imprisonment? After all, convicts are much more likely to die at the hands of other convicts than be executed by the state.
Still, that is not the point. It is only a talking point held out by the anti capital punishment activists. If that were actually their main objection they wouldn't defend those killers about whom there is NO doubt just as vociferously as they do those for whom some case can be made.
The police shoot and kill a number of people every year. Some percentage of those people are killed because the government screwed up and went to the wrong address and are shot on purpose but in error, others are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and die at the hands of the police anyway. Following the logic of the anti capital punishment movement the police should be disarmed so that these kind of tragedies cannot occur. Is there an acceptable percentage of innocent people that can be killed at the hands of the government? Is it OK to kill just one?
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
