How can you be Pro-Life and Pro-Death penalty at the same time?
They are separate issues. Many people support the death penalty because of fears that dangerous criminals will be released into their communities and because they don’t know know enough about how the death penalty system actually functions. You’ve mentioned Ray Krone. He is just one of 128 people sentenced to death and later exonerate. DNA saved Ray but it is available at less than 10% of all homicides and cannot guarantee we won’t execute an innocent person. Human beings are fallible. We sometimes get it wrong. The death penalty doesn’t prevent others from committing murder. No reliable study shows the death penalty deters others. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in those that don’t. Life without parole, on the books in 48 states, also prevents reoffending. It means what it says, and spending 23 of 24 hours a day locked in a tiny cell is not a picnic. Life without parole costs less than the death penalty. The death penalty is much more expensive than l
