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Originally posted by Pikachu_PM:
Well what you guys said is all well in good but:
I would like some more evidence of innocent people actually being executed. Now, there are a fair too many # of innocent people who are SENTENCED to death, but after appeals VERY VERY few people are actually put to death...and of those I have yet to see a case where the guy even remotely appeared to have a possability of being innocent. If you disagree please site some examples of my error...as well as some cited statistics. I could be wrong, but i don't think i am.
MOre to the point, yall are missing the bigger picture...with all the other bad things in the world the death penalty seems like a silly thing to focus on. Besides, even if the innocent guy isn't put to death, he's still put in jail for a long ass time, so arguing the death penatly issue is still kinda absurd.
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Firstly, don't underestimate the damage done to someone who is convicted to death row while they didn't do anything. Secondly, I did refer you to the site of Amnesty International. I trust you can also do a Google search on it. Yes, an actual execution of an innocent is rare, but it HAS happened. Even so I think it's bad enough that innocent people are convicted to death row, even if they escape execution.
And I don't think I am missing the bigger picture at all. Sheesh.
Who said I am focussing on the death penalty? Who said I don't concern myself with other bad things?
What nonsense to go "oh well there are plenty of other bad things in the world so why focus on just one?". That kind of attitude gets nothing done. When a friend falls terribly ill, loses a pet or a job or a partner, then there are still worse things in the world. Doesn't mean I am not obliged to help them and try to comfort them. I'm sure you'd hate it if something really bad happened to you and any person you'd turn to for help would go "oh well, that's kind of a silly thing to whine about isn't it, with all the other bad things going on in the world?"