Illinois becomes 16th state to ban death penalty

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Originally Posted by Antitrust32

honestly, cold blooded killers and people who rape kids dont deserve the use of oxygen.

The major problem is that - even today - people are sometimes wrongfully convicted of these crimes. There have been a lot of strange cases where new evidence emerges ten or more years down the road that exonerates a person who has been convicted. If you sentence a person to life in prison, and then some case takes an odd twist at some future date, the person might still have a chance to enjoy some part of their remaining life. Once they're executed, however, its obviously too late.