Originally Posted by inBOIL

So you're not o.k. with killing an innocent person, but you don't see much of a downside in doing something far worse?
There's always going to be some doubt in any conviction. We can either decide that at some point, the risk of punishing someone innocent is acceptable, or we can eliminate all punishments that aren't o.k. to mete out to innocent people. In the latter case, it seems odd to me to draw that line between death and life imprisonment.