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Originally Posted by thaskalos
Is this an indictment against the death penalty...or is it a stark reminder of the shocking degree of racial injustice that permeated this country for an embarrassingly long period of time? I started this thread by advocating the death penalty for cases such as the one chronicled in the link that I provided....where the defendant provides chilling testimony of the committed crimes with a smirk on his/her face. How much competence does it take to ensure that innocent people don't end up in the electric chair? You don't scrap the entire death penalty system when you find that the prosecutors and the police are corrupt. You just place the corrupt prosecutors and cops on death row themselves...where they belong. Justice for all!  |
Murphy's law is one of the few constants. Best to be wary of it when life and death are at stake. Some wrinkles can be removed from many pursuits of man, but our own fallibility in seeking justice, is I think authored or co-authored by Murphy
Hard to be just when the blood is boiling. No biggie when the official penalties are not final.
