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Originally Posted by Eric5273
Over the years, thousands of people on death row or with life in prison sentences have been released years later because new evidence proved they were innocent even after being convicted of murder by a jury.
If what you suggest is done, we will wrongly execute many people. Even one mistake like that is not acceptable IMO. What do you think?
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As I stated, mistakes happen. How many of the guilty were guilty? I for one never intend to put myself in a scenario where I could be precieved, beyond a reasonable doubt, as a murderer. Maybe I just expect more out of society.
It is exactly that wait wait wait we could be wrong attitude that causes these problems in society. I'm pretty sure that had the two D'bags from Columbine been arrested you'd be the first to say "send them to a sanitarium" instead of "shoot them in the head". Two different schools of though, one no more 'correct' than the other.
And comparing stats from 76-95 in the year 2006 is asinine as so much of science has change in the 11 years since those stats were valid.
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