A moral dilemma for death penalty opponents

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Not guilty. Two wrongs don't make a right, though as pointed out elsewhere this would never happen in real life.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Not guilty. Two wrongs don't make a right, though as pointed out elsewhere this would never happen in real life.

But how is letting a murderer go free better?

     Better conscience not having been responsible for the death of a person. At least, unless the murderer killed again.

[Associate Justice PiT]

But if the murderer is let free, couldn't he kill more people?

     I think I already mentioned that that is a possibility.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Yeah, and I want to take you up on that.

Let's say that the murderer openly says that he will kill again if released. What do you do?

     Well if he does that then I would have to vote guilty & hold out for life in prison. If the consequences of acquitting him are equally forseeable to the consequences of convicting him, I'd rather hang him out to dry than some random person walking down the street.