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I am firmly in the camp of the justice system should never execute anyone. It's a one way door that presumes the system is infallible and we've had proof after proof of cases where the system failed.

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All sentences are a one-way door. You don't get years of your life back, or the skills that atrophy in jail if you had any before.

If you are sentenced falsely, would you liked to be killed or you would choose to spend some time in jail and be released when proved innocent?

What you are giving here is really false equivalence which contributes absolutely nothing to the conversation.

If I have to spend 20+ years then my life as I know it is over because there’s no way I’m coming out the same person that went in.

But you are coming out, nonetheless.

That’s not in disagreement. The question is how traumatised that person coming out is.

Are we talking life sentences, or a year or two?

Given the choice of 15+ years in maximum security US prison or death, id unequivocally choose death.

Not even sentences. I've known multiple people who have been incarcerated over a decade on allegations in pre-trail detention ("jail"). You don't need a sentence to lose years of your life.

Indeed. But a death penalty can't even give you back your remaining ones once you're found innocent, so it's worse in some sense.

The land of "human rights": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolutions_concerning_death_p...

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