Well let me ask you a few things Mr. Fallacy.... When you say innocent people just what do you define as an innocent person? Do you mean innocent people of color who were not given a fair trail? The ones when it was more of a witch hunt and then years later DNA proved their innocence? Maybe the death penalty is not at fault here or should not even be discussed. The only reason it is discussed is so we can ignore the real problems of unfair trails.
You are right, I have never been on death row but I have worked on the other side of the bars. You see a 145 pound guy brought in (note were I said innocent person with no criminal background) and you know he is in trouble. Gangs to him were something he saw on TV. Fighting is something he always tried avoiding. You can say stereotype all you want. So lets hear of your background on either side of the bars. Were you on the inside of the bars, making this guy cry all night? Were you on the other side of the bars having to hear it? Just what advice would you give him dad? Just to ignore the bullies? Maybe to tell the teachers on him? I know, you would advise standing up to them, cuz deep down they just need love too? Of course we were talking about the death penalty and not if death was better for truly innocent people, so back to that.
It must be nice, when you can just lump everyone and everything together to validate your argument. It must be nice to always ask others to prove a point, yet never have to do it yourself (I am not the only one who has called you out on this). So lets try this again..... Do not skew your numbers with those not given a fair trail. This in no way has anything to do with if the death penalty is effective or not. So the police frame an innocent man, lets get rid of the death penalty? Works out perfect right? Of course since you think prison is a great place and has no negative effects on an innocent person, I guess I can see your delusional stand point. Why not address the police problem itself? Do not skew the numbers with a person of color, that was sentence by a jury of another color. Again the witch hunt cases are a separate problem/issue that needs to be addressed. Of course all guilty people want to be given a chance of a DNA test and are in no hurry to die. Of course they have no problem with prison life, since they have lived it half their life. Again taking a person who has raped and or murdered over a dozen times and the ONE TIME they were innocent... does not do your argument a lot of justice. This was not an innocent person. This was a guilty person, innocent of that crime. If they would rather live life in prison vs death proves nothing. So get us some true data/numbers to show just how many truly innocent people, who were given a truly fair trial, who were truly judged by a jury of their "peers", that were put do death. Then come back here and tell us about how slippery a slope is! I think the number is going to be VERY SMALL and of course would kind of destroy your arguments. That is why you will not get nor want these numbers.
We have a person as a president who creates 100,000 jobs to do the 2010 census. Then turns around and tells us that the job market is getting better. We really do not need a person who can twist things into their warped version of reality. Think that a select few of people (and of course feels they are on that list) knows what is best for all mankind and when they say anything, it should just be considered fact, posting things in here.
Besides how can you be the dictator of the world if you have Butterfly who feels that theirs is the only mind that matters. History has shown us that splitting an empire up does not work. Looks like you two are gonna have to fight to the death to see whose views should be law.