If one innocent person is executed, is the price too high to keep using capital punishment?

Question

I challenge anyone to prove that no innocent person has ever been executed in the US.

Answer 1

Oh i get it now. You are trying to say Canada is superior. The innocent (a rarity) usually is a bad person with a long criminal record. And if your logic is correct then since there are some wrongly convicted we should let all go free . If one in 1,000 is innocent then 1,000 (minimum ) victims get justice. I can live with 1,000 to 1 odds. Even if i were the 1.

Answer 2

No need to challenge man.Appears ye have never read the ox-bow incident.Its a classic where innocents were hanged in good old days.You see,there are hundred and one chances that law is waylaid in the process of investigation.Circumstantial evidence can all add up to make one guilty.And to err is human.Hence no questions asked that innocents are not punished or executed.But does it mean that the guilty are let scot free since we cannot take chances.Capital punishment must be retained even if in the process some valueable innocents get executed.Let hundreds of innocent suffer but not one guilty should escape.

Answer 3

I think its pointless that tax payers pay to keep low lifes in prisons, but I don't think capital punishment is the answer.

As you said, if 1 innocent person is executed its proven the system doesn't work. Someone who has been locked up will never get those years back but can at least have a future if proven innocent.

Answer 4

I don't believe that it is a matter of innocence. How many people have been executed for crimes they have committed but were completely remorseful at the time of their execution. Is one life really more valuable than another? What does taking one's life really solve? Lock them up but do not rob them of the opportunity to atone for what they have done. We need to do more as a society to help guide people away from landing in prison. Has there been any indication that fear of execution or even incarceration has been effective in fighting crime?

Answer 5

I say yes - if one innocent person dies as a result of capital punishment than we are all, to an extent, guilty for their death. Unfortunately, others feel a persons life is a small price to pay for the momentary excitement of revenge.

No I'm not a "liberal." Just speaking my mind.

Answer 6

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People have been railroaded to the death chamber.
By politicians looking for votes.
And by prosecuters looking for prestige.

Anybody that believes all the people in prison are guilty and all the people thus far executed deserved that fate are NAIVE.

A lot of Americans like nothing more than killing somebody.
Makes them feel righteous.
They don't really care if the person is guilty or not.
Its irrelevant.
So long as somebody is being killed.
That is what appeals to them.

Answer 7

Eye for an eye is just fine with me....it spares our tax dollars paying for a murderer's upkeep in prison.
Besides...it not as though innocent people aren't put away wrongly in any other countries either, huh?

Also...how many lefties who claim to be so anti-capital punishment would make an exception for our sitting President that they rabidly hate so much????? You can't have it both ways, kiddies.

Answer 8

YES However the majority of Americans favor capital punishment This is a fact not an opinion My opinion is who do we think we are to take a life

Answer 9

exicution is not the fault, it was the lawyers , prosicutors judges, doing a hurry up job, so they all could get home early.

A person on trial for his life, and media points out that evedences that ought come to light, that would prove him possably innocent, are ignored, blocked or thrown out, shows just how much of a joke our system has gotten to be.

Answer 10

There's no such thing as an "innocent" human being, and we should all be executed for infesting the planet;) LOL