Executions Get Go Ahead

[Timmy]

[SOUNWORTHY]

Originally Posted by tstew

I used to be a proponent of the death penalty until I began to realize how many wrongfully convicted people there are. As much as I don't want to imagine a family member murdered, I could not imagine me or someone in my family wrongfully convicted and executed.
Just since the Innocence Project began doing DNA tests, they have had 216 clear cut wrongful convictions and exhonerations. That in and of itself is a big number to me...but what about the thousands of cases that have no DNA evidence. I read that two-thirds of rape and homicide cases have no DNA evidence.
We have a human, flawed system that is exacting an ultimate almost superhuman measure of justice.
It's not about political correctness for me...it's about basic right and horrifically wrong.
Life in prison (real prison...not the catered hotel and rec center that costs us so much money) should be sufficient punishment while leaving the door open for correction of mistakes.

I agree with you to a point. In some cases there is no doubt, there are actual witnesses lets administer swift justice. For the rest, let's give them life without possibility of parole and in a real prison, like out in the middle of the Mohave desert or somewhere just as isolated. If there are appeals it should not be at the expense of the tax payer. I think with DNA testing there will be more no guess cases. Too bad they can't go back and do DNA on the O.J. case.

[SOUNWORTHY]

No one should receive unjust punishment, not even the poor women from the compound in Texas who are being seperated from their children.

[tstew]

Originally Posted by SOUNWORTHY

I agree with you to a point. In some cases there is no doubt, there are actual witnesses lets administer swift justice. For the rest, let's give them life without possibility of parole and in a real prison, like out in the middle of the Mohave desert or somewhere just as isolated. If there are appeals it should not be at the expense of the tax payer. I think with DNA testing there will be more no guess cases. Too bad they can't go back and do DNA on the O.J. case.

One of my concerns though is that in two-thirds of the cases, there is no DNA evidence....What DNA has done though is show us definitively how flawed the system is.