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The death penalty is a bad idea all around. It assumes complete certainty where no such thing exists.
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There are absolutely complete certainties in life. Either something happened or it didn't. The key is to make our policies incredibly stringent in order to assure that accidents don't happen.
The fact is, just because that we may have been wrong previously does not neccessarily mean we're going to be wrong in the future. Furthermore, I do not in any way condone leniency for REAL criminals because of mistakes made regarding innocents.
Let's say that a murder was caught on several different surveillance cameras, and the perp is ID'ed through that and fingerprint analysis, along with witness identification. I'd say that would be pretty airtight.