The legal system is not perfect. However this is not the lawmakers' fault : a law system CANNOT realistically be perfect. Every case is different just like every person is different and as such creating a system through which everyone must be judged upon certain criteria (a requirement for a fair system) is an almost impossible one.
That is without adding the new scenarios that add up every day, with new forms of evidence (computers, DNA testing) that are recent.
For example, the Supreme Court makes decisions that cannot be appealed against. Whilst this can mean that a "bad" judgment becomes law, which would be a mistake, an un-appealable Court is necessary for any law system to function.
12% error does not mean the system is flawed. It only means that we have not yet found a more efficient system, after lawmakers spent hundreds of years perfecting this one.
Remember the law system is made of fallible humans: a 88% success rate is absolutely insanely high.
As for prison vs death penalty, the main reason lawmakers in many states around the world removed it is because studies have shown that prison is a better deterrent: criminals are more afraid of 30 years in a hole than swift and painful death, imagine that !
But this is a highly cultural matter, as such it changes from culture to culture what the value of life is, what honor means, and even what death means, and saying death penalty is wrong across the board no matter what is a very self-centered view on the world.
That is without adding the new scenarios that add up every day, with new forms of evidence (computers, DNA testing) that are recent.
For example, the Supreme Court makes decisions that cannot be appealed against. Whilst this can mean that a "bad" judgment becomes law, which would be a mistake, an un-appealable Court is necessary for any law system to function.
12% error does not mean the system is flawed. It only means that we have not yet found a more efficient system, after lawmakers spent hundreds of years perfecting this one.
Remember the law system is made of fallible humans: a 88% success rate is absolutely insanely high.
As for prison vs death penalty, the main reason lawmakers in many states around the world removed it is because studies have shown that prison is a better deterrent: criminals are more afraid of 30 years in a hole than swift and painful death, imagine that !
But this is a highly cultural matter, as such it changes from culture to culture what the value of life is, what honor means, and even what death means, and saying death penalty is wrong across the board no matter what is a very self-centered view on the world.
