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> Therefore we should give accused murderers fair trials before executing them. There are many examples of accused murderers who received fair trials, were con
by macintux 3y ago
> Therefore we should give accused murderers fair trials before executing them.
There are many examples of accused murderers who received fair trials, were convicted, and yet were still innocent.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoAs 'xvector points out, the alternative punishment - like long sentences in high-security facilities - can, in practice, be much, much worse. This is a theory vs. practice thing - theory could say that "there's always a chance", but actual numbers will say that the country is just making convicts - guilty and innocent alike - spend decades being tortured.
- macintux 3y agoIt's far more likely that we can fix prisons than we can fix the judicial system to guarantee that only the guilty are convicted.
- lupusreal 3y agoCorporate crimes tend to be well documented. Even the communist Chinese can get these sort of convictions right. They did good work killing those bastards.