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> The reality is that a large subset of the voting population believes it is safer to kill a few innocent individuals rather than accidentally let a guilty person go free.

This is a strange sentence to read, as if the one has anything to do with the other. Abolishing the death penalty won't cause guilty people to go free.

If you execute an innocent person for a crime, in most cases it means you are letting the actual perpetrator go free.

Sounds like we should fix the right problem then! If my loved ones don’t get justice, then I am taking shit into my own hands.

State-sanctioned homicide does not seem like justice to me, especially when there are false positives. And taking things into your own hands will just land you in that same prison cell, which your loved ones probably would not appreciate.