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Originally Posted by ronaldo
Throw in bad police work, CORRUPT police officers and/or attorneys, uneducated or ignorant juries (how many people have we seen on GFY alone say they'd convict OR acquit someone based on nothing to do with the case but because of something in their own past?) and I just don't believe anyone should be put to death in these case. Humans make errors and will until the end of time.
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Quite right -- human error is the key. There is the case of the Ontario forensic scientist who was providing evidence to the courts very recently, and that evidence was used to convict parents for the murder of their children. Now, many people feel that parents who murder their children, especially in the scenarios this forensic scientist decribed, should have been executed for their horrible crimes.
Fast forward a few years, and most of these parents have been cleared of their crimes -- due to error on the behalf of this forensic scientist. Luckily, these parents only had their lives ruined, not taken.