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From: drp@drproctor.com
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:17:57 GMT, David Lentz
wrote:
>People die on the operating table. Shall be ban all surgeries?
>I say not.
>
>Every citizen is entitled to due process of law. They are not
>entitled to perfect process. About ten thousand legally
>innocent UNited States citizens are murdered each each. We need
>to stem the carnage and wait until we develop a perfect criminal
>justice system. People are dying by the thousands while some
>worry if an innocent person may have been wrongfully executed.
>
>Need need a credible criminal justice system, not a perfect one.
Sure. And when someone who is unfairly convicted and
inprisoned is shown to be innocent, they are released.
Unfortunately, the same restitution cannot be made to someone who is
killed judicially., which, from long aqaitance with the system, I
assure you happens sometimes.
BTW , Aside from the principle that justice should be done
for the victim and his loved ones, I personally feel that the death
penalty has some deterrent value.. No question that some people do
need killin'. But in terms of deterrence, whatever my personal
feelings, I admit that the evidence is equivocal at best.....
OTOH, as in alcohol prohibition, many murders are
connected to the illegality of drugs. A better means for slowing
the rate would be repeal of drug prohibiiton. Similarly, many
murders are "duels" between young black inner city males. Not a
lot of white middle-class folks like us in that 10 murder rate.
True, any is too many.
Dr P
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