(January 19, 2014 at 1:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(January 19, 2014 at 1:03 pm)Cinjin Wrote: I trust hardly no one, but I'm not willing to use that mindset as a reason to feed and house human garbage.
The system is far too imperfect.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocenc...-death-row
The system is imperfect. I wish it wasn't, but the handful of lives that are lost is just a part of the imperfect world we live in. It would be nice if alcohol didn't cause people to kill others with motor vehicles, but the far greater majority outweighs the need to do away with cold beers and good bourbon. Most of us have never killed anyone after a night of drinking. The examples of any imperfect system are endless, but that doesn't mean we do away with them. If your son or my son is murdered, and the person on trial is found guilty, I'm not about to assume that he's actually innocent simply because 1 out of 40 got dealt a bad deal.
Additionally, life in prison would be worse for me. It would be more merciful IMO to kill me rather than put me in a cage for the remainder of my life.
