(June 12, 2020 at 10:11 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(June 12, 2020 at 2:17 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Many people who have been executed have been found later to be innocent.
The "absolutely no doubt about their guilt bit" is a slippery slope.
No.
A downhill water slide is a slippery slope.
Having a minimum level of assurance that the wrong person doesn't get executed is a standard.
Hence if there is even the tiniest fraction of a doubt then the sentence is life in prison.
And I do mean life.
But there will ALWAYS be that 'tiniest fraction of a doubt'. I agree that life should be life, though.
Boru
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