1. The Penalty
... opponents are soft on criminals." Good point. Can't add anything of substance to that one. "If death penalty cases, subject to far more rigorous safeguards than ordinary criminal cases, still manage to convict the innocent, how many innocent people are convicted of crimes that don't carry the death penalty? Far too many, I would ... close as possible. The proposed safeguards will cost a huge pile of money, money that the government doesn't have. So you get to make the cost-benefit analysis - which will, of course, come to the conclusion that someone's life is not worth the expense? And ...
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