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AlVic40117560_ t1_j91sbd8 wrote

Even with the current slow process, there have been plenty of examples of people being proved innocent after the government killed them. Imagine how much worse it’d be if it was a quick process.

Put a loved one into that situation. They literally didn’t commit a crime. They go through the whole process and they put them to death for a crime that they didn’t commit. A few years later, they come out and say they made a mistake, someone else did it. If they were still alive, at least they could be let free. But they’re dead you can’t take that back. They killed your mother/father/sister/brother/son/daughter because the other side had better lawyers and was trying to get a good conviction rate. That’s fucked. Putting one family through that is not worth killing to guilty people. And it’s already a whole lot more than just one family with the current process.

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ImNorm29 t1_j9964sd wrote

Can you name some in PA who have been proven innocent after they were executed recently? I mean I'm not even sure when the last time we executed anyone in PA, but say in the last 40 years - has it actually happened that someone was executed and later found to be innocent?

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