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Ok, here's argument.

> People are wrongfully executed all the time

Citation needed. I'm not aware of people who have been persuasively shown to be innocent post-execution.

> Executions serve no purpose for society except to satisfy our thirst for revenge,

Wrong, many studies show a deterrent effect.

> it makes little difference if the person they kill is innocent or not.

What? Of course it does.

> If he turns out to be innocent, they can always execute someone else to save face. Not the ones responsible for his execution, of course.

This hardly deserves a response.




>Citation needed. I'm not aware of people who have been persuasively shown to be innocent post-execution.

The size of the US list is concerning - and it isn't even complete. There's also the possibility of executions that haven't been further looked into where the person may have also been innocent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution


In your first link, I'm seeing pre-execution exonerations, not innocents executed. In your second, I'm seeing that some people have "doubts." Not exactly the same as "the wrong person was definitely executed."



Yes, death penalty abolitionists argue that innocents have been executed. In other news, sun rises in east.


Citation needed. I'm not aware of people who have been persuasively shown to be innocent post-execution.

In that case you have done very little research and cannot really be trusted to have an informed opinion on the matter.


I'm aware of death penalty abolitionists who argue that innocents have been executed. I'm not aware of persuasive evidence. If it were trivial to find some, surely you would have just posted a link instead of an insult.


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"Citation needed" isn't an insult. It's pointing out an unsupported assertion. "Go do some fucking legwork, asshole" is an insult.

I note with some dismay that you still haven't identified a single innocent who's been executed.


It takes only a small amount of induction to conclude that given the number of death row exonerations pre-execution, there almost certainly have been innocent persons executed.

If you hold out for conclusive proof, you will probably not find it, as it's a bit of a fool's errand to attempt to exonerate a dead man when you could devote that effort to exonerating one who the state has not yet committed manslaughter upon.


What premise are you basing that induction on, and how are you excluding the theory that the appeals system just works well?


> Go do some fucking legwork, asshole

We've banned this account. You can't do this here.




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