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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
This ENTIRELY contrary to the design of our justice system and patently false IMO. 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.
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It's not "patently" false, the entire point of the justice system is to protect the innocent. If the justice system finds the guilty innocent and lets them back out on the street to commit more crimes, then it is no longer protecting them. An innocent killed by a released murderer(or an escaped one) is just as dead as one wrongfully sent to death row. And therefore one is just as bad as the other.
And no I do not have to agree that an innocent life is more valuable then a guilty one, I could just like the idea of people being killed(I'm joking here, but to make a point).