Precisely. I had a civics class in high school where we debated this, and I came to that conclusion. It’s simply not worth the risk

Opposite opinion: Who will pay for their lifetime detention. The annual cost per prisoner is over 200K a year to society. I say we execute the criminals if they can't pay for their cost. Also nowadays, you can have DNA proofs that seals the deal. We could have a protocole where a death sentence...

I agree. Although there are people who deserve death, I'd rather a million people that deserve death not receive it if it prevents just one innocent person from being put to death. When you have politics and power, there will always be innocent people convicted wrongly.