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Originally Posted by Kickaha
Yup. Just like many people we've jailed have later turned out to be innocent. It's a problem with the system, not the punishment. You can no more give someone back 20 years of their life, than you can bring them back from the dead. The entire anti-death-penalty argument that we might kill an innocent person is a red herring IMNSHO. Don't fight the punishment, fight the crappy system... then the punishment will be meted out when appropriate, and in that case I have zero problem with it. It's too bad we don't have penal colonies anymore, but in the absence of such, eliminate them outright.
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Except that when we find out someone has been jailed wrongly we can release them. When we execute someone that is later found innocent we can do nothing. I for one do not want an innocent man's blood on my hands. As long as humans run the justice system, and it remains heavily politicized, it will never be free of mistakes.