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Originally Posted by DanM";p="
So, whats your solution that protects prisoners and prevents the creation of additional victims?
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I am not as interested in protecting prisoners, as I am in protecting innocent people from being put to death, especially innocent people that are too poor to afford a lawyer to properly defend them. There is a difference. If making fewer mistakes is not possible, then do not inflict undo-able sentences. That corrupts society more than you think. Its the kind of mental corruption that supposes that killing a few innocent people is ok as long as we kill the bad guys too. It's when we start thinking of innocent tax paying citizens as sacrificial statistics that we start becoming jaded and losing touch. Right now the solution is putting a mandate on the death penalty until we can figure out why this is happening.