The Death Penalty

we were actually watching something kinda about this in class the other day. it doesn’t really have to do with the death penalty as much as the judicial system. Anyway, our system is designed so that the prosecutor trys to convict and the defense tries to avoid conviction. I’m inferring this as a result of our capitalistic and competitive society. I win or I lose. But shouldn’t our courts try to discover the truth? Its sort of assumed that through the process the truth will come out but time and time again it has proven that it doesn’t….maybe we need to rethink the morality of our “justice” system.

I don’t know that you can pin the blame of this on the "justice’ system itself. The name is misleading because for the most part the “justice” system is not just at all. I would pin the blame on the representatives of the supposed criminals. All they are in a case for is to try and make some money. Even if there is a person that is recieving a large part of the blame for a crime, our society looks for retribution for the crime; weather it be on the person who did it or the accused. The peace of mind and the sorrow that has been lifted off a persons back cannot justify the taking of an innocent life.

On 2002-05-10 20:03, yourbuttocks wrote:
The Justice system is just another reason to abolish the death penalty:

It makes mistakes.

You can’t pardon a corpse.

Enough said.

I agree fully

My favorite quote so far. Feel free to use if you wish.

Hah. I feel so privileged to be honored on your signature. Expecially since I am a newbie.

On 2002-05-08 15:50, Candyman67 wrote:
It seems to me that the death penalty is very hypocritcal. Society punishes a murderer by killing the murderer (a bit ludicrous to me).

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[ This Message was edited by: Candyman67 on 2002-05-08 15:51 ]

Most people don’t want to die, and figure they could get away with a prison term than death.

But i have a compromise…hjow about we work 100% DNA proven convicted killers in work camps…so they work themselves to death. IO just want a horrible punishment for ones who murder.

note: DNA evidence just shows that someone has been at a crime scene. It does not actually demonstrate that someone shot/knifed/bashed-a-head-into someone. A forensics expert gave us an interesting talk on this, and although DNA evidence is VERY handy (small amounts may be amplified etc.) it is not a photograph of a murder scene.

oh i understand. but if you have DNA, whitnesses, and pretty much a crap-load of evidence that the man is guilty (like OJ), then they deserve that punishment.

Unfortunately, i have forgotten where to find it. But there was a nice “game” on “can you read percentages” somewhere. It had an example where you should do a verdict based on a DNA test. Once version was with percentages, the other one with relations like “one out of 10.000” (which is 0.01%) And then take the average chance of ppl having distinct DNA features (say, having a base population of 1 million around)…. that was funny to see how different the judging was.

Blah, don’t get me started on OJ. DNA does prove that a person was at the crime scene but it also could prove that a person did it when DNA is in certain places (to tired to think of examples). As far as working a person to death, think of what the potential cons of are this.

quote: think of what the potential cons of are this

no pun intended?
(sorry - i couldn’t resist)

Sorry, guess you lost me with your last post too. I should get some sleep. Maybe then I will understand.

Ah, I see now. Thanks for noticing the screw up on the typing. Being an insomniac sucks on educational forums like this.

Agreed

quote: Ah, I see now. Thanks for noticing the screw up on the typing. Being an insomniac sucks on educational forums like this. - Disclaimer
Actually D/c, i was just enjoying the pun - playing on the word “con” (as in pro’s and con’s versus convict) - i’m not such a tight ass that i had any problems with your typing . . . i knew what you meant.