Reply #82: How many of those people polled, support the death penalty for an [View All]

[Uncle Joe]

innocent, wrongly convicted person? I don't care if 99.99% of Americans support the death penalty, I don't.

My point is simple if you go down the road of supporting the death penalty for those that may deserve it, you will inevitably end up executing those that don't. That's been consistent throughout history and regardless of what you believe about "modern times" those human frailties; of mistake and corruption are inescapable, unless you're so naive as to believe humanity has reached perfection.

You can call that soft on crime if you like, I call it strong on justice and wary of draconian punishment, when the state kills an innocent person any and everyone supporting the death penalty has some responsibility for that state sanctioned manslaughter or murder.

We need to evolve past the point of killing people as a pseudo means of justice and superficial salve for an angered or hurt conscious.