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NanceGreggs

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29. Death penalty as well.

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:54 PM

Mar 2015

It was the ONE issue my dear hubby and I disagreed on for years. He was anti, I was pro.

Although I still have no ethical qualms with putting certain people to death, I came to realize that too many death penalty cases "fall through the cracks" on an all-too-frequent basis.

So I now go with the "rather ten guilty men/women go free than one innocent man/woman be put to death" idea. That being said, I still have no problem with the "guilty beyond all reasonable doubt" - Timothy McVeigh comes to mind - being expunged from society.

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