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March 29, 2004
Death Penalty
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I've been thinking about this for a while:
The biggest problem I have with the Death penalty is its utter finality. While this may seem like a good thing, the fact is that so often we get the wrong guy...
I think the best solution might be to have a minimum body count for Death. Say we set it at 10 or more. As far as I can tell, we seem to be a lot more certain about mass murderers than we are about 1 time only people. So, we could still hang Saddam, (no question about his guilt! The fairer the trial, the swifter the execution.), put run-of-the-mill murderers behind bars for life, but if it turns out we got the wrong guy, we still have a live person to apologize to...
Posted by Andrew at March 29, 2004 08:39 PM
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But it seems like the serial killer types are the ones most likeley to get away with/deserve some kind of mental illness leniency.
I agree that it's odd the ten-bodies-in-the-fridge types don't seem to be the ones who get executed, while the really ambiguous which-one-actually-pulled-the-trigger types do.
Posted by: Saheli at March 30, 2004 12:43 AM