Max Sawicky wrote:
> > . . . How many more would be
> > discovered if all the
> > cases were independently examined?
>
> This is well-taken, but it implies that the
> only thing wrong with the death penalty is
> the likelihood of the wrong people being
> executed, not the fact of execution itself.
What I meant was is that at the very least, having an 8-15% error rate in applying the death penalty is reason enough not to use it. The other civil and moral arguments against the death penaly only add to the argument to abolish its use.