Reply #30: I have to agree [View All]

I get tired of certain cause celeb death row inmates taking a lot of media spotlight. In a large part they take away from the real problems that exist with the death penalty and its use in the first place.

I really don't care about 'repenting' or 'finding God' in jail. If you have murdered, you are scum and deserve a fitting punishment (and yes in some cases, they do deserve to die)...but it's simply not in the Government's hands to decide who lives and who dies. This is the problem with the death penalty - it's capricious, arbitrary, and completely innefecient. Not one study has proven it to be a deterrent in any sense. If that was the case, MN would be a very dangerous state, while TX should be a lot safer.

And of course, the other reasons you stated are also valid. If we can reason that the wrong person will go to jail every so often, we can likely guess the same is the case with death row. We can't reverse death.