You don't have to worry about me committing a violent crime against society pal.156 common pieces of shit who all had police records thick as NYC telephone book and were violent criminals before death row. Would be doing society a favor by executing them. Now other than that...how many guilty scumbags were put down over the years? 1,000? I'll take those odds.The problem with the Death Penalty, at the end of the day, is that you can never be sure.
We have released 156 individuals from Death Row when it was discovered they had not committed the crimes they were convicted of. Of the 1500 or so people we have executed, some of them probably also didn't do what they were accused of.
The thing is, the guys you complain about, the ones with no conscience. They usually don't get the death penalty. Their lawyers are smart enough to plead them down to three hots and a cot for the rest of their lives. It's often the poor fool who thinks that the system will prove their innocence that ends up on Death Row.
You mind would change if you were one of those 1000. It's easy when it is someone else.
There are folks on Death Row who didn't commit a violent crime against society either, pal.
All of the folks on Death Row however, were found to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of violent crime by a jury of their peers.
Yep and then every year there are folks found to be not guilty of anything and not just those on Death Row.