Mystech said:
if we have to callously take even one innocent person with them - that's just immoral and the entire society has his blood on their hands. When the death penalty fails, we all become murderers.
Penn & Teller recently did an episode of Bullshit! (Their program on the Show Time network, where they take social and political issues and go about proving them to be a bunch of BS in one way or another through well reasoned arguments, and a good dose of entertaining humor, and the occasional magic trick) did an episode about the death penalty just recently – they had an interview with a man who was put on death row for a murder that he could not have committed.
He was fingered by two witnesses, tried, and sentenced, and sat on death row for two years. The real kicker? He was already in jail when the murder took place! The witnesses who fingered him turned out to be the murderers, and the prosecutors in his trial knew that he was in jail at the time, and withheld that information. The death penalty is a horribly flawed system of “punishment”.
What really gets me is that most people who support the death penalty don’t even trust the government to put up street signs or license and register vehicles – but they’ll trust them with the supreme power over who lives and who dies. It just doesn’t make any sense at all to me.
Here it is, the
guilty innocent idea.
So we are aware that at times some people will BARE FALSE WITNESS in order to manipulate the justice system.
solution - when it is found that these people have lied in court - they are to be subjected to the punishment that their victim received.
in the case you mentioned, they 2 actual murderers should have been charged with perjury as well as the murder as well as the attempted conviction of an innocent with regards the obstruction of justice.
top that off with a helping of them both being the murderers in this case and we have 2 individuals that are prime candidates for execution.
The lawyers involved that wilfully withheld evidence that would have cleared the innocent should have been sentenced to some prison time and never allowed to practice law or be involved in employment related to law/security for the rest of their lives.
And now to my favourite part, the
underlined part
"if we have to callously take even one innocent person with them - that's just immoral and the entire society has his blood on their hands. When the death penalty fails, we all become murderers"
When society fails to properly deal with malignant elements such as paedophiles, murderers, rapists then the blood of these criminals victims is on societies hands.
Its a case of responsibility, roy whiting, a convicted paedophile was released from prison, he then commit the following atrocity
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/18/newsid_2514000/2514769.stm
i wanted him dead first time round, i certainly want him dead now.
you accept 8 year old sarahs blood on your hands, if we did it my way, she would be alive now.
the following link should give heart to all those disgusted by the creature that commit this most heinous crime
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3826657.stm
what a shame prisons have hospitals and doctors on standby (payed for by the tax payer) if he had bled to death would anyone have shed a tear.