Yeah, there are a lot of problems with the death penalty, and plenty of reasons to oppose it.
One of the most popular reasons has to do with the statistics showing that blacks and mexicans are more likely to get the death penalty than their white counterparts. I think that this argument has sort of fallen by the wayside because of some mitigation of statistics. I don't know though, sociology just kills me and I can't get interested in the shit. There are too many values involved.
The reason I'm not for it is because we can never know for certain if someone did something or not. I mean, there are plenty of people released every year because it was decided they did not in fact commit the crime. As someone who was wrongfully accused of a crime, and almost got in some Big Time trouble because of it, this point sort of hits home with me.
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