(June 12, 2020 at 10:11 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(June 12, 2020 at 2:17 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Many people who have been executed have been found later to be innocent.
The "absolutely no doubt about their guilt bit" is a slippery slope.
No.
A downhill water slide is a slippery slope.
Having a minimum level of assurance that the wrong person doesn't get executed is a standard.
Hence if there is even the tiniest fraction of a doubt then the sentence is life in prison.
And I do mean life.
But there will ALWAYS be that 'tiniest fraction of a doubt'. I agree that life should be life, though.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson