2006-11-09 01:53:59 · 7 answers · asked by shad j 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
What alternate justice system would you recommend? Or is this a statement against the death penalty? If so, why don't you just say so.
Would it be better to let a guilty person that had raped and murdered you daughter/wife/mother go free?
2006-11-09 02:12:31 · answer #1 · answered by Mutt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Conversly is it reliable if guilty people are still walking free.
How exactly do you prove guilt or inocence anyway, other than the system currently in place in the UK and the US (and many other western countries in various forms) which looks at evidence and decides how reliable that is.
sadly any judical system is only as reliable as the evidence it uses and the integrity of the people involved. but since we are only human we are going to make mistakes sometimes, and since everything is subject to the laws of chance, that eveidence which has a 170000 to 1 chance of being wrong - well it could be that 1.
Unfortunatly mistakes do happen and the system is by no meens perfect, but as the numer of correct convictions far outstrips the number of false convictions, i think this is the best it is going to get.
unless of course you are infavour of a lot more CCTV cameras so we can see first hand exactly who did what?
2006-11-09 10:21:46 · answer #2 · answered by tarri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one has ever proven an innocent person in the US was ever executed after a fair trial. There has been a few close-calls but that just proves the system albeit not perfect, works.
Good question btw.
2006-11-09 11:25:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is not reliable.
No system ever devised in the history of humans has ever been reliable enough to justify capital punishment.
It is a disgrace that it is still legal in any society that calls itself "civilized". Whoever says that it is a deterrent does not know what they are talking about. Time after time it has been shown in scientific research in different countries that the only deterrent is the chance to be detected being very high, and you don't have to kill anybody for achieving that.
2006-11-09 10:05:01 · answer #4 · answered by haggesitze 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and here is another question for you, what innocent people do you think the justice system is executing.
because my train of thought, i think we are keeping death row immates too long in jails and there should be more executions every year to set a example and to clear some of our jails and taxpayers pay less to maintain them
2006-11-09 09:57:04 · answer #5 · answered by lasalle_1986 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it isn't, our justice system needs an overhaul cause they don't think a thing about making it legal to execute thousands of babies legally.
2006-11-09 10:20:24 · answer #6 · answered by Brianne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Care to back up your question with some cold, hard facts?
2006-11-09 10:01:41 · answer #7 · answered by Demon Doll 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋