Originally Posted by SecretMethod70

The whole purpose of a justice system is to protect the innocent - through giving them proper justice and through actions against the guilty. If innocent people are then being incarcerated and, worse yet, KILLED by the very justice system that is supposed to protect them, it does not work. An innocent life IS more valuable than a guilty life (something which you must agree to in order to support the death penalty) and, thus, one cannot accept the killing of innocent life as a trade-off for the taking of a guilty life.