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Originally Posted by daswig
The problem isn't overuse of the Death Penalty, it's gross underuse, coupled with far too long between sentencing and carrying out the execution.
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Really.
You might think differently if you were wrongly convicted of killing someone and were sentenced to death.
If the system were 100 % fool proof, I might almost acknowledge your arguement, but it's not.
I can think of 4 men in Canada that were convicted of murder and now it turns out they were innocent.
1. David Milgarde (spent 25 years in jail, turns out he's innocent.)
2. Donald Marshall
3. Guy Paul Morin (convicted of killing 9 year old Christine Jessop. Turns out the cops framed him, hid evidence that cleared him, and in the words of one astute juror, "yeah, I knew he did it when he didn't make eye contact when he testified")
4. Stephen Truscot (at age 14 was sentenced to hang for killing 12 year old Lynne Harper. Has been fighting to clear his name for 40 some odd years. I think he spent 15 years in prison. Turns out the cops framed him too.)
Now there's 4 that I can think of without even so much as a google search.