>>>Collateral damage! John, I am not even going there.
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>>What, you against pragmatism?
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>I would hardly call executing innocent people pragmatism.

I wonder how many innocent people have been executed. I'm sure there have been some. And I also wonder how many guilty people have walked via technicality. I think the current system has enough safeguards in place to preclude execution of innocent people. Given all the appeals, technicalities, etc that a person has in a trial, and particularly in a capital case, I don't have a problem with the states executing people who have been adjudicated as guilty. In order to prove a capital case, the state has an extremely high hurdle to cross.