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Originally Posted by presluc
I'm not clutching at straws, and here is your proof.
As you yourself said if a theif was killed by a murderer in prison it would be the prison system that failed.
If the prison system is incapable of preventing a murderer from killing inside a prison then how can they be relied on to think that a murderer should have a second chance?
We all know that prisoners are killed in prison.
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The point made was the prison service is charged with preventing murder.
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We also know that plea bargans are struck by lawyers for less than life sentences 1 to 5 or 5 to 10 years and when a muderer gets out society is supposed to trust the reabilitation of the murderer done by the prison system which you yourself said maybe flawed???
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You are discussing how thing are in the US system. I'm not US. But...the issues you're raising are not justification for a death penalty. They are just more flaws in your system which should be corrected.
By the way, if your system already supports the death penalty, why is a murderer freed at all?
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With the death penalty with undeniable proof there is no mistakes.
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There are mistakes... in prosecution of justice and innocent people are convicted of murder. That is the overarching reason for not supporting the death penalty.
In cases of undeniable proof, I think those people would not usually be released to kill again. Even in such cases, for example cases like Ted Bundy, evidence is not enough to justify the death penalty. Google 10 Rillington Place, for evidence even a "serial killer" can be wrongly convicted.
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The year 2000 will mark 50 years from the conviction and execution of Timothy Evans for the murder of his baby daughter, a crime for which he received a free pardon in 1966. Irrespective of whether Evans was guilty or not, it is almost certain that had the jury known at the time of his trial that Christie, the other male occupant of the house (and chief prosecution witness) was a murderer, they could not have convicted him. Despite the pardon, many people remain convinced that Evans did indeed murder his daughter - others feel sure that he murdered his wife, a crime to which Christie later confessed. Evans also has his champions - those who believe passionately in his innocence of both crimes. http://www.parmaq.com/truecrime/Rillington.htm
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