Another argument against the death penalty

I don’t support the death penalty because I think it’s barbaric, but more importantly, it endangers the lives of innocent people.


Human beings are fallible. The justice system makes mistakes. To think otherwise is stupid, except think of a word that means stupid a thousand times over.


I don’t know what that word is, but that’s what I think of the death penalty.


Mistakes happen. They have in the past, and they will again. Innocent people will die at the hands of the state. 


For example:


On this date in 1456, Joan of Arc was declared innocent for heresy.


Unfortunately for Joan, that was 25 years after she was burned at the stake for her crime.


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Published on July 09, 2013 11:33
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