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Originally Posted by CC1
I think the percentage is so small I am willing to live with it (no pun intended).
I think the safeguards in our judicial system weed out 99.9% of errors. In the small number of cases where an error has been made the person is usually still a terrible person with prior convictions for rape or some other violent crime. Not justifying executing people innocent of the crime they are accused of but just saying very few people on death row are good people.
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"Since 1973, 140 people in 26 states have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence."
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/inno...-death-penalty
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