Kill someone, we kill you.
Rape someone, you get raped.
Steal something, we cut off your hand.
Oh wait, you probably support that.
You may be shackled, but no one can stop your mind from thinking what you want and traveling where you want to go. No one except Death
You may be shackled, but no one can stop you from appealing a bad verdict, coming from an incompetent public defender, mismanagement (or corruption) by the police, or bad eyewitnesses. No one ... except Death.
But hey, we never make mistakes right?
Oh wait:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-and-death-penalty#inn-stAs of April 8, 2009 there have been 131 exonerations in 26 different States.
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