Indonesia to execute six drug offenders

[abaris]

Yeah. I should have termed it "legally confess" but I'm not sure I even understand what that means anymore, so thank you for helping me narrow it down to one: only people who actually want the DP should get it.

There's always a margin of error in many cases. Even more so, when getting off the hook largely depends on how much money you can spend on your legal team. If OJ had been a poor black person he probably ended up on death row or with a life sentence.

Look up the case of the West Memphis Three. They were convicted without any tangible evidence and spent 18 years behind bars. Damien Echols on death row. They only got off because a tv team televised their first trial and the film got a huge response by many influencal people, who paid for some real legal counsel. And still, when finally being granted a new trial, the took the seldomly used Alford plea because the prosecution threatened to draw out the process.

In my opinion one of the major flaws of the American legal system is the fact that prosecutors are politicians, who always look at the next election.