A common objection to the death penalty is that juries
mistakenly convict the innocent.
But the likelihood that three different juries in totally
separate cases would each mistakenly convict a defendant of a crime now classed
as capital is entirely insignificant.
So, why not a death penalty three time loser rule?
Anyone convicted, say, on three separate occasions of first degree
murders gets the chair.
Discovery after conviction that the convict is innocent of
one of the three or even two of the three is to be insufficient to overturn the
sentence.
Salus publica suprema lex est.
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