• morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    That “at least 4%” bit makes that even worse. Just look at the List of miscarriage of justice cases on Wikipedia, it’s not not exhaustive and it’s huge, I cannot morally or ethically justify capital punishment on that alone, the whole state-sanctioned murder bit just makes it even more horrific.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      From the wiki:

      Due to the high number of notable wrongful conviction cases compiled for the United States, the list can be viewed via the main article.

      I fucking hate this country.