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It is not ok to put any innocent people to death and it is also not ok to live in an unsafe society.

I believe that the death penalty should be applied with extreme prejudice for the most serious of crimes.

You don't need to and shouldn't apply it to all murders.

Furthermore, anyone guilty of rape should be castrated

It is not ok to put any innocent people to death
I believe that the death penalty should be applied with extreme prejudice for the most serious of crimes.

I’d recommend you re-read their comment and then try to reconcile these statements. In particular, pay special attention to this part:

The death penalty necessarily means in our imperfect information world that innocent people will be put to death.

"It's not ok" is a value judgement. I am not implying that a death penalty means bad things never happen. I support death penalty because I value an orderly and safe society more.

In the form I would accept, it would be used on people convicted of heinous crimes, some of which will be innocent, with the effect that fewer heinous crimes occur.

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