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Calilasseia wrote:

Sendraks wrote:Better to let a guilty man walk free than put an innocent man to death.

With the former option, you have the opportunity to correct the error. With the latter, you don't.

Absolutely. So many in favour of capital punishment are utterly indifferent to the consequences of putting innocents to death. They only care about retribution and justice plays a distinct second fiddle to that.