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Originally posted by WheelyI'm not in favor of giving the state the right to legally kill it's citizens. My point, which evidently got lost, was that the word "innocent" is usually used as an absolute instead being rightly coupled to a specific act. While it may be accurate to say: X is innocent of Y, it is probably never accurate to say X is innocent. Unless, of course, X is a newborn babe.
To be fair, I don't think he was actually defending the death penalty but it still seems a rather weird position to take in my view.
Originally posted by RingtailhunterWhile I agree that 0% would be nice, that bar is simply raised a little too high. That would put all of the good folks in our court system, police departments and Justice departments out of work. And I don't just mean in regards to the death penalty. 🙂
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Now I don't know what the acceptable error rate is in regards to the death penalty, or burglaries, rapes, etc, but there certainly is one. Whether it's discussed or not among the learned in our court system is another matter. I suppose it is. It's not an error rate I've ever seen discussed on the evening news though.
