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Smeth, am I correct in assuming that your primary reason for opposing the death penalty is that it prevents innocent people from being killed? If so, and given your belief that life imprisonment is worse and the fact that wrongful convictions aren't just limited to capital cases, are you also against life imprisonment? What about long prison sentences where there's a good chance that the prisoner will die before being released?
If we choose to have a criminal justice system, we have to accept that despite our best efforts, innocent people will be convicted and that some of them will never be exonerated. It seems arbitrary to me to say that risking a wrongful execution is unacceptable, but that risking a fully-served life term is o.k.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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