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Then how would you feel about having those who sentence an innocent man to die being sentenced to death? Including the judge, the prosecutor, the jury, and the "committee" that actually does the killing, because they're all murderers if just ONE person gets wrongly convicted and put to death.

There is zero evidence that the death penalty deters crime. Some places with the death penalty have higher crime, some have lower. There are other factors that correlate much more closely with crime rates. The people doing the crimes don't believe they're going to get caught anyway. Besides, in 2006, US states with the death penalty had higher murder rates (and increasing) than those without, even when the states are next to each other. Seems it's not much of a deterrent, and more of an "eye for an eye" revenge thing.

What the death penalty DOES do is create situations where it is impossible to correct errors in the justice system. It therefore denies justice to those who are wrongfully convicted, while not adding anything in terms of justice to anyone else. Even "confessions" are suspect these days given the widespread use of torture to extract confessions. Even some USA cops are using that tactic, and not just in Gitmo.

Until the justice system becomes provably 100% accurate, the death penalty is nothing more than the current version of a lynch mob.