[Zon]

People need to realize that as long as there is capital punishment, there will be some innocent people put to death. To say otherwise is pure folly.

I concur. 

Because the mistake cannot be undone being put to death should be the convicted person's choice. And in the case of a confession on the witness stand wherein the defendant is fully aware that he may be sentenced to death. I don't think a confession to the police should hold up as irrefutable proof unless the entire confession is video and audio taped.

To any person that argues in favor of the state imposing the death penalty rather than the convicted person's choice I remind them: it could be you, your child, spouse or loved one that -- though they're innocent -- could be put to death. ...A terrible mistake that cannot be fixed. What miscarriage of justice are you willing to suffer? To the individual, there can be no greater miscarriage than to be wrongly put to death.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"To any person that argues in favor of the state imposing the death penalty rather than the convicted person's choice I remind them: it could be you, your child, spouse or loved one that -- though they're innocent -- could be put to death. ...A terrible mistake that cannot be fixed. What miscarriage of justice are you willing to suffer? To the individual, there can be no greater miscarriage than to be wrongly put to death."

To which I reply, that I think the chances are better that I, my child, spouse, or loved one would be murdered by a criminal not deterred by the death penalty than that they would be unjustly executed for a crime they did not commit. It is more likely that I, my child, spouse, or loved one would be hit by a meteorite than be unjustly executed for committing a murder they did not commit.