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Originally Posted by Oberon

The catch is making sure the right person is rightly convicted.

If you imprison a person for life and he's later found to be innocent, you can let him go and compensate him, if you execute him, you can't very well resurrect him (or her for that matter).

HEY! there is always the posthumous pardon (formal quash?)! who needs resurrection! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Evans & on our side of the pond: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-posthumous-pardons-united-states