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		austincheney on April 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The real reason to end the death penalty No system is perfect, but perfection isn’t the point. The point is the error rate that you alluded to. At any rate judges sometimes make really bad decisions. The most remembered from where I live is Affluenza: * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluenza * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Couch

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