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AliasElais t1_j0a4ux3 wrote

Reply to comment by Far_Vegetable7105 in Oregon governor commutes all 17 of state's death sentences by Slavic_Dusa

>Unless your suggesting that these people were found guilty on purpose because someone wanted them exacuted.

u/onioning does a good job explaining the rest but I just wanted to point out this part and affirm that this has indeed happened. Not the point but if you don't think the death penalty has been used against innocent people on purpose then you really should research more history on the subject.

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Far_Vegetable7105 t1_j0b4a1t wrote

I'm well aware. But I think that particular miscarriage of justice is a wholly different problem that needs to be solved regardless of what any kind of punishment looks like. It doesn't suddenly become ok just because it was some other punishment. We can't just abolished the death penalty and call it good enough if that is the problem.

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