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There's a difference. The people with MAID choose to die.

When innocent people are killed via capital punishment, they have no choice.

And it's not a "small minority" either. We don't have good numbers, but it's significant enough to be over 22% or roughly 1 in 5. That's not a small minority.

For Florida, since 1973, 30 people awaiting execution have been exonerated so far. The state has executed 106 people.

Out of 136 cases, 30 were shown to be innocent beyond any reasonable doubt. I have no doubt that there might be other innocent people within the 106 that were executed.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence/innocen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_in_Flo...



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