are murdered each year by released andparoled criminals. These are the serious flaws in life sentences thatabolitionists prefer to trivialize to nonexistence. One United States Senatereport stated this position this way:All that can be expected of...[human authorities] is that they take everyreasonable precaution against the danger of error...If errors are...made,this is the necessary price that must be paid within a society which ismade up of human beings. Also, the death penalty isn’t the only institution that require that weaccept risks in exchange for social benefits. We, in fact, mindlessly use farmore dangerous institutions that take the lives of innocents by the hundredsevery day, cars for example. After all, how can we accept the average 45,000person a year death toll in this nation due to car wrecks for our personalconveniences when we can’t accept the few risks of wrongful executions forthe sake of defending public safety?To enjoy the privilege of using cars, airplanes, or any other device thatimprove the quality of our lives, we accept the risks and deaths that arecaused by them in order to reap their full benefits. The same concept appliesfor the death penalty only on a far lesser scale. As long as we are entitled torecklessly endanger hundreds of innocent lives daily for our personalconveniences, then surely we should be allowed to take on a lesser risk for public safety. Every institution that is of great benefit to our society alwayscontains risks so that we may enjoy a better world. The death penalty happens to be the least dangerous of them, yet it is focused on with the mostparanoia.Abolitionist like to establish the illusion that the death penalty is theonly risk that exists. That’s why they rarely, if ever, pay attention to thehundreds of innocent human beings that are brutally slaughtered daily by cars,airplanes, fire, and electricity, let alone violent crime. The only time they assign th...
