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You're wrong, because I never stated that innocent people get executed. I stated that it would be worth executing innocent people if the dissincentive effect was as strong as some studies say. It's an interesting moral dilema in the likeness of - would you kill one innocent person to save 2 innocent people. Would you kill one innocent person to prevent a 50% chance of 100 people dieing? Would you kill one innocent person to prevent a 2% chance of 1000 people dieing? Anyway, as I said, I have seen insufficient evidence of the marginal dissincentive effect of the death penalty. The innocence or otherwise of the executed person is of little importance to me. As an aside - you say most cases the death penalty is reduced. What happens in the other cases? Do any death row inmates get released? And are they all on legal technicalities? Or just generally? Honest questions - I just don't know.
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