RE: Death Penalty
July 19, 2014 at 7:29 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2014 at 7:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You can be 100% certain that a person has been convicted (is "guilty"), you can't be 100% certain that a person actually committed the crime. I'm a stickler for the terms myself. I like to remind people that there are no guilty people who do not get convicted. It's subtle, but important in forming an argument...lol, fucking lawyers.
The notion being expressed is not one of their legal status, but of whether or not their legal status is indicative of actual culpability. If we can;t make the two terms synonymous, we're accepting some number of people getting hit over the head with a brick for something they were not, in any sense beyond a system, culpable for or "guilty" of.
The notion being expressed is not one of their legal status, but of whether or not their legal status is indicative of actual culpability. If we can;t make the two terms synonymous, we're accepting some number of people getting hit over the head with a brick for something they were not, in any sense beyond a system, culpable for or "guilty" of.
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