05-05-2008, 10:53 PM
As A society, we have to accept that NO justice system is perfect.
No matter how hard we try, no matter what safeguards we put in place, the system will make mistakes. Those mistakes will have consequences. Some of those consequences will be that the innocent will be incarcerated, OR executed.
On the flip side of that, we have the guilty being set free all the time.
Do we need to be ever-vigilant? Absolutely.
Should we scrap the U.S. Justice System, or the Death Penalty? No.
Capital Punishment should never be taken lightly, but as a society, EVEN GIVEN THAT THERE WILL BE MISTAKES MADE, I firmly beleive that it is an important option for our justice system to have in some cases.
The idea of accidentally punishing or executing the wrong person is abhorrent to most, and it should be, but if we go TOO FAR in attempting to insure that we "never" punish the wrong person, we will end up punishing NO ONE, and end up even worse off.
No matter how hard we try, no matter what safeguards we put in place, the system will make mistakes. Those mistakes will have consequences. Some of those consequences will be that the innocent will be incarcerated, OR executed.
On the flip side of that, we have the guilty being set free all the time.
Do we need to be ever-vigilant? Absolutely.
Should we scrap the U.S. Justice System, or the Death Penalty? No.
Capital Punishment should never be taken lightly, but as a society, EVEN GIVEN THAT THERE WILL BE MISTAKES MADE, I firmly beleive that it is an important option for our justice system to have in some cases.
The idea of accidentally punishing or executing the wrong person is abhorrent to most, and it should be, but if we go TOO FAR in attempting to insure that we "never" punish the wrong person, we will end up punishing NO ONE, and end up even worse off.