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inBOIL, the whole point with life imprisonment and innocent people is that it's not worse precisely because they can be released if we discover they are innocent.
Guilty person: Options are death or life in prison. Life in prison is the worse option precisely because they will actually spend the rest of their life in prison.
Innocent person: Options are death or a period of time in prison until the point where their innocence is discovered. I think it's pretty obvious which punishment is easier to recover from.
If someone's innocence is never discovered, we must assume the judgement was correct. We just shouldn't be so arrogant as to assume we will never be proven wrong in the future.
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KirStang: He was responding to my post in which I agreed with others in this thread who have expressed the view that life in prison is worse than the death sentence. Unless you believe in an afterlife - and I don't - I really can't see how life in prison can't be seen as worse than death.
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