I think the percentage is so small I am willing to live with it (no pun intended).
I think the safeguards in our judicial system weed out 99.9% of errors. In the small number of cases where an error has been made the person is usually still a terrible person with prior convictions for rape or some other violent crime. Not justifying executing people innocent of the crime they are accused of but just saying very few people on death row are good people.
Trust me I have. Long and hard and over an extended period of time.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
No one knows, of course. Some have been exonerated, post-execution, but most of the time, nobody bothers to find out, after it's too late. But here are two examples, both in Texas:
Texas had a lab problem with DNA evidence. I don't remember if any were death penalty cases.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
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No one knows, of course. Some have been exonerated, post-execution, but most of the time, nobody bothers to find out, after it's too late. But here are two examples, both in Texas:
Thanks for the info....not sure whether this means that capitol punishment should be abolished, but rather that the proof should be irrefutable before we execute.
Thanks for the info....not sure whether this means that capitol punishment should be abolished, but rather that the proof should be irrefutable before we execute.
I'm with you on that.
With technology today, there shouldn't be any reason for a person to be sentenced to death without sufficient, irrefutable evidence.
I'm not against capital punishment, but can't stand to think about our history when it comes to this form of punishment and the innocent people who have died in this country.
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One issue (and it's not "false") that prevents me from supporting the death penalty is that a lot of convictions are wrong. Some are overturned, but not all. Many innocents have been executed, even in Texas!
Timmy this may shock you but I dont disagree with you. I think the standard for a death penalty execution should be extremely high. Higher than it is.
However when we have a solid conviction, I am for the DP.
The standard should always be the protection of innocent life. There are times when that requires a person be put to death.
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