Quote Originally Posted by deathworlds View Post
But you see, at least 4% people executed on death row were later found innocent. So it's clear that there isn't ever really indisputable evidence
The only thing that's clear is that someone either fucked up or got overenthusiastic. The evidence is either irrefutable or it isn't. How about video evidence? If you've been watching the news, you may know about of a certain police officer who murdered a certain other dude he was arresting by obstructing his trachea for 9 minutes or so and choking him out. It's a pretty obscure bit of trivia, but you sound well informed so you may have heard of it. Who's going to dispute that? It happened a while ago... He could have just been killed off within the next day, wouldn't that be so much better for everyone?

I don't know the list of death penalty cases and the quantity and type of evidence for each of them, but I view death sentence as an ideal solution when the situation allows it. It may be more expensive, because we made it that way, but it shouldn't have to be.