Phoenix32890 wrote:Thomas wrote:Phoenix32890 wrote:Thomas- I understand your point about the cost, but I think that there is a problem with the justice system.
Can you name any justice system elsewhere in the world that manages to prove capital crimes with enough certainty to justify executions, yet does it cheaper than the cost of life imprisonment?
Which goes back to my original thesis. I beleive that certain crimes deserve execution, but the ones that do are so cut and dry that there does not have to be much machinations of the justice system. The problem is, that when there are protracted appeals, you get into the phenomena of attorneys getting clients off on ridiculous technicalities, and that, to me that is not justice.
Like I said before, I could see a much smaller group on death row, but those people would be executed swiftly.
There are plenty of countries in the world that don't have protracted appeals like the US does. Some of them, like China, would no doubt fail the due process guarantees avoiding wrongful executions that you require. Others of them, like continental Europe, have no capital punishment at all, or aren't applying it. Given this, my question to you is simply this: If the nice, clean, fair variant of capital punishment you demand is realistically possible, why can't you name
any country in the world that actually has it?
