[natehale1971]

Fusilier you are thinking that we don't have ways to find innocents to make sure that they aren't executed. What was it about all those hoops that has be be jumped through to just get someone to be charged with a Death Penalty case, and after conviction to get executed. There are safeguards all through the progame. And it's not just bam you're guilty, then taken out back and executed.

You go through a series of appeals that the taxpayers pay for. that investigates all aspects of the crime and how they were found guilty. To date it looks as if NONE have been executed falsely. the average time spent on death row are 20 years or more. during that time they are going through their appeals.

Do you think i want an inncoent person to be put to death? YOu're making the 'strawman' assumption that is the case. Becaue it's not. I would rather a thousand guilty go free than have ONE innocent man go to jail or be put to death.

I want to make sure only those who deserve to be put down are done so. And if you would have read about how i feel it should be inacted, that the level of needs of evidence that would be used to convict them.

I've given you ther reasons WHY we need the death penalty. It's thought out and backed up with history. And the fact that we've not to my knowledge executed innocents in this country should show just how deeply these cases are investigated and prosecuted. I would rather we didn't need to have the death penalty. But using it as a bargeting chip during negotations happening behind the scenes and having it for those criminals how DESERVE it is just to great of a need to just throw it out.