I have a hard time with it, I can see why you would want to put to death people like Richard Allen Davis, Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez and quite a few others, but those are the sensational cases that get all the media coverage and most cases are not like that. If it was executing the truly guilty most people would not have a problem with that but people are convicted on circumstantial evidence and often unreliable witness testimony, there have been to many cases that were overturned on appeal because of DNA evidence pointing to another party for me to be comfortable with the state executing people, and that is where they have DNA evidence usually they do not have any to work with. Too often politicians run on tough on crime platforms usually because they have nothing to offer the voters and so they use fear and if the death penalty was such deterrent wouldn’t places like Texas, Alabama, Louisiana be the safest in the country? And why is it that Canada, Western Europe and Japan are far safer than the United States? And these place don’t have death penalty, Japan has it for crimes against the state not for common criminals but it is never used.
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http://www.aclu.org/capital/innocence/10361pub20031209.html
http://www.innocenceproject.org/

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