The murder of a prison worker by a convict serving a life sentence is not a less likely occurrence than a wrongful execution.
It must be conceded that for the media and Hollywood, the two possibilities do not raise the same interest. But as the state exists to protect us, recidivism is also a failure.
Although it is legally possible for all states, no posthumous exoneration or pardon has ever been handed down for any of the more than 1,500 convicts executed since 1976.
And many of the so-called exonerees were actually freed on legal technicalities.
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On the other hand, murderers killing again in jail are an established fact.
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Indeed, correctional unions, and individual correction officers giving small amounts, were decisive in Proposition 66 victory the day of President Trump election.
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We must also include the much more numerous victims who will not be saved because of lack of intimidating deterrence, but they are unidentified and faceless, while denying recidivism is even less credible.
And we must also include those who will be murdered by parolees, since without the death penalty, life imprisonment without parole would be doomed.
It is indeed quite revealing that, the same people who oppose the death penalty, are also against life without parole once capital punishment disappears, even though miscarriage irreversibility, the most sensational argument of the abolitionist narrative, does not apply to life without parole.
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