[storf45]

Work to advocate for the elimination of the death penalty in your state and support groups like the Innocence Project are small but actionable steps.

[basementcat]

Support for the death penalty is a form of "virtue signaling" to indicate that someone cares for law and order and justice for victims. The reality is that a large subset of the voting population believes it is safer to kill a few innocent individuals rather than accidentally let a guilty person go free.

[Jtsummers]

> The reality is that a large subset of the voting population believes it is safer to kill a few innocent individuals rather than accidentally let a guilty person go free.

This is a strange sentence to read, as if the one has anything to do with the other. Abolishing the death penalty won't cause guilty people to go free.

[fmobus]

If you execute an innocent person for a crime, in most cases it means you are letting the actual perpetrator go free.

[erikaww]

Sounds like we should fix the right problem then! If my loved ones don’t get justice, then I am taking shit into my own hands.