>>>> My views on capital punishment are changing a bit because the # of erroneous convictions.
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>>Welcome, brother.
>>Better late than never!
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>Ha, yup, wonders never cease.
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>Don't get me wrong - if it is 100% proven that someone committed first degree pre-meditated murder, I have zero problem with the death penalty.
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>But anything less than the absolute smoking gun is where I have the issue. I don't have actual numbers, but it just seems there have been more overturned verdicts on death penalty cases, either due to additional evidence or even legal misconduct. Advocates of the death penalty have argued in the past that with new forensic techniques, the odds of convicting the wrong person would approach zero. It seems to have gone the other way. Ayn Rand once said it best, "It's better to sentence a thousand men to life w/out parole than to execute one innocent man".
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>Now, how you translate what I just said into law, I have no idea. It's just my opinion.
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>However, you might want to take back the "welcome, brother" when I say that I don't care about the recent botched job on Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma. This guy was a total monster and deserved it.

I agree with AR in that case.
I just heard bits about the Oklahoma case, but I'll let the welcome stand!