The judgement of a court of law is based on the convincing of (lying) attourneys and prosecutors, (biased) jury officials, and a possibly biased judge, none of which were ever at the scene of the crime and therefore know about as much as the people watching the case on television. Not that all court cases are this way, but too many of them for comfort. And while a court of law isn't 100% accurate, execution is 100% final, even after it's found out that the victim of the execution was innocent.
My question, I guess, is what is the purpose of execution? What purpose does it serve, besides the mere assumption that you've done the right thing, and, given they did said act in the first place, they won't do it again?
2006-10-11
01:17:35
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Huey Freeman
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Law & Ethics