The problem with the death penalty isn’t that convicted criminals won’t have the chance to repent and better themselves.

The real horror of the death penalty is that innocent people get convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. Death is absolute. You can’t commute a sentence and award damages to a wrongfully convicted person if you kill them.

The system is flawed, it’s is created and run by humans who are flawed, and we know some unacceptable amount of innocent people are in prison. Some of those people are on death row.

I would rather have all of the atrocious criminals, spend life in prison, than have one innocent person committed to death. that innocent person could be your coworker, or childhood friend, or sibling, or you…. or your child.

Until our criminal justice system can operate at 100% effectiveness, the permanency of a death sentence is unacceptable.