If you could remove a law, which one would get the boot?

Okay, sure. I’m not going to disagree with you all that strongly on the point of ‘if we could, without any doubt in any way shape or form, absolutely know that someone had committed such an awful offence, we should execute them as their crime is that awful’. I personally wouldn’t agree on that, but I can see that argument, especially from somebody who has been affected by a crime of that sort - and I’d imagine even more so if the perpetrator was completely remorseless or a huge number of other potential things. But the thing is… you can’t convict with that level of certainty. We’re not many years off (if any at all now really) from fake photorealistic footage, pretty much indistinguishable from real footage. Witness testimony can be accurate, but *not 100% of the time*. Hell - even DNA evidence. Although it gets more complicated here, on the topic of rape, people can *absolutely* plant evidence of that sort. Be it the perpetrator, or in the cases of things like rape which are fabricated by the accuser. (Not saying that is frequent, but if you took a large number of cases, it would probably happen one or more times). Hell, even *confessions* can be coerced - be it by police, the actual perpetrator forcing somebody to take the fall for them, by people who may be mentally ill and uncertain of what occurred (or mentally impaired at the time of the incident). And so… where do you draw the line for absolute, unequivocal proof? It is *factually accurate* that a percentage of all sentences are incorrect, and an innocent person has been convicted. How do you guarantee such a high burden of proof (in law) to prevent innocent people being killed? Or, do you think there is an acceptable amount of *COMPLETELY INNOCENT* people who can die, so long as the murderers, rapists, and paedophiles do as well? How many people is that? Where do you draw the line to allow the government to kill innocents, just so that the criminals die too? And how is that NOT murder in and of itself? I’m genuinely, truly sorry as to what you and your family have been through. I can’t imagine the impact that’s had on all of your lives, and how awful that must be. But it still doesn’t make a viewpoint like that for the death penalty any more moral to argue for, in my view.