(June 4, 2018 at 8:52 am)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote:(June 4, 2018 at 8:33 am)mh.brewer Wrote: lower case punishment?
Evacuate the city of New York then put a giant wall around it. Stick all of the guilty there.
I'll bet that idea could be the premise of a really cool movie.
I'm not a fan of state sanctioned murder and providing an easy means of suicide would jus be pushing the responsibility back one step. Innocent people would likely still die under that system.
Especially cases where someone is convicted on circumstantial evidence and or a "confession". When I was in collage I had met one man who had his conviction overturned and was set free. I talked on the phone, with another man, in prison that was convicted solely based on the testimony of another prisoner. It both cases the convictions were weak.
It is a myth as well that people do not confess to crimes they didn't commit. False confessions happen all the time, mainly due to sloppy and over aggressive investigations. And even entire private contracted labs have been busted for bad protocol and or fudging the numbers to gain convictions.
Like I said in my prior post, I have no sympathy for the rightfully convicted. My concern is for the larger long term mentality in insuring quality of investigation and convictions so that the innocent are not railroaded by an over zealous society.
