Wrongful execution can only exist if people are wrongfully convicted and executed.
Since there are cases where guilt is beyond doubt (see my very first comment regarding Brewer and the Moors murders), I see no reason why one should oppose capital punishment in such cases. If there are cases where there is no absolute guilt, then it would be quite amoral and wrong to execute the person.
And by principle -- can I not equally give you cases of people who have been released from jail who then went on to commit more crimes against innocent people? By logic, the State would be equally responsible for executing an innocent person, as they would be for an innocent person being harmed/killed because they released a criminal from jail.
Response to 9milerancher, 18 August 2012 1:45AM
So you're a big fan of referenda? Every subtle, nuanced, complex huge argument must go through the 'people', because otherwise, we're living under a dictatorship? To be brutally honest, i wouldn't trust the general public with anything much. If that makes me Mao, so be it.
If we left it to raw democracy, we'd be out of Europe and in even more of an economic wilderness than we are now. No, i don't trust the public to make informed decisions.
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@CainLawrence:Read this and defend the death penalty.I dare you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution
00.47AM 18.08.12.
ENDERS HAS BEEN WATCHING FOOTAGE OF ME MASTURBATING ON SATELLITE AND USING IT TO PRIME A CHINESE PROSTITUTE
I DO MIND
http://jupitersterrain5.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/a-reminder-to-enders-to-keep-her-common.html
THEYRE ALSO TRYING TO TAKE HIM AWAY SOMEWHERE TO BE TORTURED
