(August 30, 2015 at 6:20 pm)Chad32 Wrote: If you never jail anyone, you'll never jail an innocent person. But we must do something to people who break the law, and sometimes we get it wrong. If someone spends the rest of their life in jail, and we find out they were innocent, but they're too old to do anything with it anymore, how is that better than killing them? You can give them money, but you can't give them time.
How is it better than killing them?
Perhaps because they're still alive to see proper justice served? Perhaps because even though they've had years stolen, they haven't had breath stolen? Perhaps because instead of being buried in a prison yard, they can bequeath to their heirs the wrongful-imprisonment award so that even if they cannot themselves get the full expression of life, they can do what all men strive to do, to provide for their families?
Pull your head out of the clouds.
