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Summary: Eliminating the death penalty without fixing the trial process will still send innocent men to prison for a very long time. Hard to do though.

• anamax 17y ago
  > Eliminating the death penalty without fixing the trial process will still send innocent men to prison for a very long time. Actually, sending innocent people to prison will kill a significant number of them, especially if the sentence is "life without parole". If you're innocent, you're actually much better off being sentenced to death.
  • PostOnce 17y ago
    People have their opinions on what sort of life is worse than death, so I won't argue with you. I was simply saying that the parent of my above comment was arguing that the problem is doing bad things to innocent people, and that we are focusing on a subset of that problem, rather than the problem as a whole. And then I said that the problem as a whole is hard to fix.
    • anamax 17y ago
      > People have their opinions on what sort of life is worse than death, so I won't argue with you. You misunderstand - I'm not saying anything about quality of life. I'm pointing out that innocent people on death row are far more likely to be released than innocent people sentenced to life without parole. In fact, even less than life sentences are frequently fatal. Prison life is very deadly. FWIW, death row is safer and has better quality of life in many respects.