(June 18, 2015 at 8:22 pm)Dystopia Wrote:(June 18, 2015 at 8:16 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: It's at least four per cent in the US. WAY too many innocent people faced the DP. I'm against it 100% unless a convict asks for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_e...ted_States
I disagree with the last part because it should be the system deciding the penalty, not the other way around. It's like someone saying "hey I don't want 25 years in jail, I want it for life" - It's not up to individual people to decide their own punishment, you get what the states decides because it's supposedly the most appropriate destiny.
I don't think of the DP as punishment, as it were, and I don't think the justice system should *necessarily* be about punishment. Much like the argument we had a few days ago, I think people have a right to their own bodily autonomy, and if someone is facing his or her entire life in prison, they should have the right to die. Probably another agree/disagree for us, Dys. I think we both have the best of intentions, though.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.