KKG wrote:
you dont generally get a death sentence for nothing.Not generally. But, specifically, there are people who've been sentenced to death who are/were almost certainly innocent. Often with degrees of prosecutorial misconduct. E.g. Anthony Ray Hinton. And more commonly than I'm comfortable with.
The finality of death prevents correcting mistakes. E.g. using new techniques like DNA analysis.
That's the main reason I'm anti death penalty.