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Now who's making silly arguments? You are actually saying that it is right to execute a group of people because some people of that group may kill/hurt someone? Following that logic you could start wiping out the whole human race...
People are falsely convicted of crimes they haven't committed. Executions are irreversible. This alone is enough to warrant the abolishment of executions...Also I encourage you to prove any effect on crime that capital punishment has over imprisonment. Just stating that it is a deterrent isn't enough. On that note, shouldn't the US be a much safer place than Europe since there are only a couple of countries on the whole continent that still have the death penalty?
A murderer has no right to life, but sparing them certainly condemns other innocents to death. The official re-murder rate is over 8% and murder is a very easy crime to get away with, meaning the real rate is much much higher, in contrast the falsely convicted and executed is a tiny percentage, lol, around half of those on death row are there for their second murder conviction!