[connectthedots]

Most people who get off on technicalities are set free because the cops and the prosecutor didn't do their jobs or abused the rights of the accused so as to render the evidence inadmissable. In those cases, the fault lies with the prosecutor and cops.

[LexBaird]

What's your point? That cops and prosecutors are humans? The point stands that the guilty are freed to continue to prey on the innocent far more than the innocent are wrongly convicted. On an individual basis, the toll of innocent life is higher with the system we have. We choose to pay that cost because of the benefit to a free society, just as we accept traffic fatalities to gain the freedom of movement.

But the cry of "if even one innocent life is saved" is a false choice. I guarantee that more innocents will die if the death penalty is discontinued than if we executed every convict on death row tomorrow. There are murders occurring in prisons all the time, done by people serving life sentences for other murders.