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DMcG

""Better for one guilty man be set free, than one innocent man be hanged"
Yes, I quite agree. But consider also the case where the person released is in actuality a serial killer. Then what is happening is you are enabling more innocents to die as a result of his being released."

This isn't relevant to the issue of capital punishment.

If a guilty man is set free it would make no difference if there were a death penalty of not.

He would still be free to murder etc

This is about a failure to convict him in the first place.

The question of the death penalty is about how to sentence/punish people who have been found guilty.


And a dead man has no chance to appeal a wrongful conviction.