Matt Braynard has been on fire! "The evidence continues to amass...."
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My worry, as someone who has been falsley accused and was unable to completely clear my name for reasons that still escape me, is that I would end up being one of those one day. And that's enough for me to be against the death penalty. Going up against the state is a difficult thing.
Here's the thing. I am for the death penalty when it is SOLID that person committed the crime. The guy that killed the people in the Aurora Movie theater. The two men in Connecticut that killed that doctor's wife and two daughters...those kinds of cases. We know they are guilty. They are heinous. They deserve the death penalty.
While I agree that it's solid they committed the crime, it's becoming more and more apparent that they can manipulate the truth to the point where we think we know it for absolute, yet it isn't. Food for thought.
IMO death penalty ONLY when the risk is extreme that they may be able to escape and continue to inflict.
That said, I do believe in more serious non-lethal punishments for the most depraved elements of society. If anything, I think it's better than the death penalty because they'd likely embrace death over it.
What's more, even if they're the most vile "people" around, they can still be useful. If they can pick up a shovel, they can dig.
Instead of costing society more by death penalty-ing them for costing people/society as it is, they should be made to attempt to repay the debt that they have incurred; such a debt cannot be repaid, of course, but the closer they can get the better.
So anyone?
Well of course they are certain that everyone convicted did the thing. But there are cases where people have been sentenced to death and are innocent. When you're innocent, prison is bad enough, losing your only life is unforgivable.
I guess I am talking about the cases where there is absolutely ZERO doubt. I understand that everyone convicted supposedly was guilty, but I would only approve of death sentences where it is undeniable. Example: Dude from Making a Murderer-no death penalty. Guys from Connecticut murders-Death Penalty.
But I get your point, if we aren't a hundred percent certain, should they be in jail? I get it...
You have to have complete faith in a system of government that can barely run an election securely. I don't have that faith, therefore I assume some percentage of convicted criminals are innocent and this extends to death sentence. In all cases though as far as the system is concerned they are 100% guilty.
You'd still be serving life in prison.
With the possibility of proving my innocence at one point
To torment you while your life wastes away. Execution seems like a mercy to me. I've been imprisoned before although I've never committed a crime and would rather die than face the prospects of life without freedom.
Having also been locked up, freedom is in your mind. Although of course physical freedom is great.