God will, and that has nothing to do with the death penalty, stay on subject.
BTW, how many people over the last five years or so have been released from prison after DNA testing established that the jury who convicted the person had erred?
Shocker, the system works!
Produce an innocent that has been executed in the last 50 years and we can talk about changing the system, provided that you can show the system at fault and not one bad actor sabotaging it.
But you still ignore the basic problem with eliminating the death penalty: You automatically place higher value on the life of murderers than their victims. He gets off with a prison sentence from which escape, parole, a liberal judge, are all possibilities for an unfettered life. The victim will always be dead.
You ignore the very real probability that he will kill again, either in prison or after the next liberal judge sets him free.
All this so you can feel self-righteous and superior.
For some. But I'm not about to assume it works for all.
Produce an innocent that has been executed in the last 50 years and we can talk about changing the system, provided that you can show the system at fault and not one bad actor sabotaging it.
I'm not aware of a concerted effort by anyone to dig up the dead to obtain DNA samples to see if innocent people were wrongfully executed. That doesn't mean that hasn't happened.
He gets off with a prison sentence from which escape, parole, a liberal judge, are all possibilities for an unfettered life. The victim will always be dead.
Escape from a maximum security prison in this day and age is extremely rare. It does happen, but not very often. The same state legislatures that can muster enough votes to pass a death penalty ought to be able find enough votes to pass life without parole. Even with the death penalty, liberal judges have plenty of oppurtunities to turn killers loose between conviction and execution.