RE: Death Penalty
July 19, 2014 at 8:30 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2014 at 8:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Don't have to invoke morality. By our systems own rules some sort of compensation is made to a person who is punished in error. The state effectively becomes a victimizer and the convict the victim. We know it happens, we still need laws - but we do try to address the issue.
They can't compensate a dead man. Due process ends at death, the right to appeal ends at death. The entire system ties itself in knots so that we can extract some good ole eye for eye. Once we've executed someone we have intentionally created a scenario in which all of the protections that law affords have been stripped from a person - ostensibly, in search of the terminus of law. It's actually pretty damned absurd, just on the face of it.
They can't compensate a dead man. Due process ends at death, the right to appeal ends at death. The entire system ties itself in knots so that we can extract some good ole eye for eye. Once we've executed someone we have intentionally created a scenario in which all of the protections that law affords have been stripped from a person - ostensibly, in search of the terminus of law. It's actually pretty damned absurd, just on the face of it.
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