What is the highest rate of execution of innocent persons that could exist without making you cease supporting the death penalty?This is a question that simply must be answered before a conversation about the death penalty can commence. But I rarely hear it asked. (The rate in question can be in just about any units: innocents per execution, innocent executions per capital crime committed, innocent executions per year, or per capita per year. Whatever.)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Question All Death Penalty Supporters Need To Answer
It's a reasonable assumption that anyone who in any way supports the death penalty probably doesn't believe that executing a genuinely guilty heinous murderer is fundamentally wrong, so that's not the question. Rather, the question is this:
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