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Innocent until proven guilty.

• braythwayt 6y ago
  Well let’s agree that there is a murderer, and that having committed murder, the murder needs to receive the sharp end of the justice stick. depending upon your Ideas around morality, that means one or more of punishment because “an eye for an eye,” punishment because of some debatable ideas around deterrence, removal from society because the murder is a threat to commit more crimes, and/or rehabilitation because life in prison does nothing except enrich prison contractors at the expense of taxpayers.... Or because civilized societies try to rehabilitate wrongdoers wherever it is a realistic possibility. All that being said, this particular person is innocent until proven guilty. But ideally the murderer—whoever they are—will end up with one or more of these consequences, administered in a fair and transparent manner.
• loeg 6y ago
  GP said "the murderer," not "the suspect."
  • justincredible 6y ago
    The implied assumption of his comment is that the two are one in the same.
• lelanthran 6y ago
  > Innocent until proven guilty. Surely the murderer, by definition, isn't innocent? The suspect they have might be though.
• mannykannot 6y ago
  The phrase is "presumed innocent until proven guilty." Whoever committed the crime was guilty from that moment.