I appreciate your honest response.
I myself am against the death penalty for a similar reason; I don’t trust the government not to make a mistake. Even one innocent man executed is far too many.
Thank you for your response.
When someone is charged with a capital crime, you are not just “trusting the government” to get it right.
You are trusting a lot of human, fallible people who may not be connected to ‘government’ at all - witnesses, scientists, and a jury of “peers” - not to mention lawyers.
It’s just all too ‘iffy’ for me, to sentence someone to death - a sentence that can’t be taken back - even if some witness was mistaken, or some forensics person was just having a bad day, and made a mistake; or someone lied; or someone was just craven, or saw some personal advantage in the conviction.
It’s too big a price to pay - a human life, possibly a salvageable one, lost due to human fallibility.
I want nothing to do with it.
-JT