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Originally posted by Wumbo
Are you for real? If that's the case, yes, that's absolutely horrible and unjust. But the chance that somebody gets WRONGLY accused is minimal. Let me also state that I'm FOR death penalty if there is CLEAR evidence that the offender is guilty. Are YOU alright with the idea that your mother gets abducted, brutally tortured for months and months and for the perpetrator to get away with a life sentence or 30 whatever years?
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Here, this is from just over a week ago:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/us/lou...nn-ford-freed/
Random link at the bottom of the above article:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/justic...ton/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/justic...rticle_sidebar
You can literally find many more. Innocent people going about their business, accused of crimes they weren't even witnesses to, sentenced to death and losing decades of their lives on death row before eventually being set free. Given the number of times this has happened, there is no doubt there have been many more cases where the person's execution WASN'T as drawn out as their's, and they were killed promptly without anyone ever realizing they were completely innocent all along.
Also,
this link estimates that roughly 4% of all people sentenced to death would be exonerated if given the time. To be honest, even .1% is far too much. If this isn't enough to convince you the death penalty is wrong, you are at least in some respect, an awful person
That's not even mentioning how inhumane the execution process is (remember the story of the botched execution a while back)? Plus the irony of it all: "Murder is wrong! Now let's murder more people, some of whom haven't even committed murder (or any crime) themselves to prove it!" Plus, just looking at the company we're in among nations who still practice the death penalty - North Korea, Russia, most of the Middle East and Africa (basically all the countries we claim to have moral high ground over), while most of the developed world has already outlawed it
regarding your last question, a) if the person did that, they'd probably get more than 30 years, first of all. The guy who had those girls locked up got something like 1000 years before he killed himself
b) life in prison would be suitable -- I mean, whether he get life in prison, sentenced to 30 years, or sentenced to being torn limb from limb by wolves in a live televised event, it would not bring my mother back and I would still never get over her death for the rest of my life - I'm saying this as someone who already knows what it's like to lose a parent. c) There is a reason we have people put on a jury by their peers, rather than by the victim or their families
Because OF COURSE the victim or their family is in no position to mete out justice, if that were the case almost every crime would result in the accused being beaten to a bloody pulp and/or put to death