The death penalty, said President Tsakhia Elbegdorj, was an act of state violence that ran the riskof irrevocable error, and neither deterred criminals nor restored justice to victims' families.
In fact, most of the highly precautionary laws and regulations currently on the books include some form ofrisk assessment that error on the side of caution, building in a host of safety factors that substantially overestimate exposure to justify regulatory actions that may not be necessary.