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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
It's so short cited. The legitimacy of the death penalty depends entirely on the proposition that innocent people are never executed. If they are, it becomes basically indefensible--the only way to allow it is to assure everyone that any person executed is certainly guilty of the crime.
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Nothing that is man made is perfect, by definition. That is known and understood and never argued. Philosophically, we pay lip service to your standard, but in practice, though no one ever says it, we know we've killed innocents. Some are proven. There's a margin of error. The zealots don't care. "They're all guilty a sumpin."
