My bad . My brain went right to the email about sacrificing . I ' ve seen too many people saying moloch is an owl around here . <| sep |> Since that innocent person would in effect be losing their life anyway life in jailFunny how that logic doesn ' t seem to work in reverse for you . I thought it was a hotel room and not really punishment at all ? Also , that person would now have his entire life ' s worth of time to correct his conviction if it were a mistake . This has happened MULTIPLE times . Moreover if the issue is wrongful conviction , the effort should be focusing on fixing that problem , rather than hand wringing and handicapping the punishment . It would literally be impossible to eliminate all margin of error . Unless someone develops technology to see through the eyes of a dead person to see who killed who or some shit like that . Hell , even then it wouldn ' t be possible because not every victim sees their death coming .