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I'm actually okay with the capital punishment _in principle_. I just don't trust the prosecution (or the legal system in general) to get it right _every time_.
by sgjohnson 4y ago
I'm actually okay with the capital punishment _in principle_. I just don't trust the prosecution (or the legal system in general) to get it right _every time_.
There's also the problem of the death-qualified jury. The problem with that is, as a defendant, the deck is stacked against you since day 1, because the very people who are going to determine your fate, are already screened to be okay to be willing to render a verdict that would kill someone.
- ogogmad 4y agoMaybe this is the wrong forum for this, but the Talmud says that A Sanhedrin that executes someone more than once every 70 years is bloody. If you think about it then, you could simply limit the frequency of executions, and scale it up or down per capita (depending on the number of people the Sanhedrin had jurisdiction over when it existed).
- sgjohnson 4y agoAnd how is that going to solve anything? Nobody is going to get wrongully convicted and put to death just because we limit the number of executions?