There have been too many wrongful conviction cases for this to be okay. I hate that their "three hots and a cot" as well as their medical is paid for by our tax dollars, but unless you're 300% sure that person did the crime (Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, David Berkowitz to name a few) by actual evidence and testimony then I don't feel comfortable with it. 

It doesn't matter if you find out AFTER they're dead that they were innocent, and that has happened. Or those five guys in NY who were in prison for a long time for a crime they didn't commit and were exonerated only because one of them ended up in the same cell block as the guy who actually did the crime. He ended up confessing to it and DNA matched so the others were set free, paid a butt ton of money but still feel pretty screwed by the whole thing. Not a capital punishment case but still....

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