(July 19, 2014 at 6:28 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:(July 18, 2014 at 8:19 am)Blackout Wrote: Can I ask how does the US get so many sentences wrong? Is there a cause? For instance Japan still has capital punishment, but they very rarely use it, this year the first execution was on June I think.
There is no cause. You simply can't be 100% certain.
And anything less than 100% certainty in regards to capital punishment should be 100% unacceptable, even if you think it's okay for the state to carry out vengeance killing in the name of 'justice'.
Oh I dislike that argument, by a very simple reason - Everyone who is considered guilty IS 100% guilty. All of those people who were innocent are 100% guilty when convicted, it's not possible to be sentenced to anything without being 100% guilty. The argument of 'we need to be 100% sure' is very volatile. People who were innocent were considered sometime 100% guilty, like all convicts are.
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