Is It "better to let 100 guilty men go free than to convict one innocent man"?

Answer 1

u mean that the innocent man in place of the 100 guilty men?

didn't Jesus already do it for all of us?

hmmm....

let the 100 guilty men go free...they might commit more crimes...
or alternatively be so filled with gratitude at the grace they received that they will change for the better..

n the one innocent man....could go either way too...be filled with bitterness or use his situation to inspire people around him aka 'Shawshank redemption'...

:)

i say....actually convict the 100 guilty men..!!

Answer 2

If I were an innocent man wrongly convicted and sentenced to the death penalty, with the knowledge that my death will deter an average of 14 murders, I would still support the death penalty.
It is absolutely wrong to let 100 go free because one person might be wrongly convicted. The actual average is more like 1 in 10,000 convicts sentenced to death are later proved innocent. Another thing is that not prosecuting the death penalty until an average of 24 years after sentencing is watering down the deterrence of murderous crimes.

Suppose you were in a bank doing business when a bank robber comes in and starts shooting people starting with the armed guard, the guns slides unnoticed to your feet. One, you already know he is willing to murder, two he winds up taking 14 hostages not including you. Is it your duty to risk your life to put this bad guy away forever before he can kill any other people? How is this different than on in 10,000 convicts being wrongly sentenced to death?]
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Answer 3

Is it better to let one guilty man go free than it is to convict 100 innocent ones? Or let's go even further to even the odds. Is it better to let one guilty man go free than it is to convict one innocent man?

Is it better to imprison people for crimes where there is no victim than it is to admit that the law is wrong?

Answer 4

It is better than KNOWINGLY convicting an innocent man. However, (theoretically) if the justice system is uncorrupted and working in the best interest of the People, then the occasional wrongful conviction is a matter of statistical error, and is an unfortunate necessity.

Answer 5

This goes back to that Utilitarianism question asked earlier.
I think it depends who the innocent one is, and who the guilty men are. For example, if you were the innocent one, what would you think? And, if the man or woman who killed your family member was one of the guilty men, wouldn't you have a different view of the whole thing?

Answer 6

In theory, yes. That is what our justice system is based on, and should I ever be involved with it I imagine I will be glad. But, I doubt that the future victims of the 100 criminals will think it is very nice.
There is a novel called The Truth Machine that came out about 10 years ago that has some interesting ideas about this.

Answer 7

All of Judeo-Christian law and tradition, not to say also our country s constitution and legal tradition, is based ultimately on the sanctity of every individual human life. For us to assume God s right to the determination of life and death is to undermine the single most critical basis of our legal system and, more important, to our collective respect for it. To remand an innocent man to prison subverts both of these. But to sentence a man to death without the most incontrovertible evidence of his guilt is a sin as great as murder itself. Paladin s contention (above) that "the occasional wrongful conviction is a matter of statistical error, and is an unfortunate necessity", is deeply offensive, utterly lacking in compassion, empathy and humanity, and nothing less than gratuitously barbaric. We are now more than five millennia since Abraham and more than two millennia since Jesus. Can t we not, please, I beg you, at this late date, at least restrain ourselves from bombastic speech that incites barbaric retribution against those who are, or even may be, innocent?!

Answer 8

confident. that's often times no longer trouble-free to settle for, in spite of if that's actual. And our criminal device relies on the final concept that that's greater effective for a in charge guy or woman to be acquitted than for an harmless guy or woman to be convicted. the burden of information lies with the prosecution.

Answer 9

Yes....what if you were that one innocent person?

Answer 10

this is a basic pillar of our system of justice. and why we provide due process protections