On Tue, 15 May 2001 10:56:34 +1200 "David McNab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> IMO, the death penalty serves to increase the incidence of violent
> crime.
>
> The existence of such a penalty puts a chill into the community, and
> sends
> the message that a government is capable of lethal violence. In such
> a
> scenario, it's easier for a criminal to rationalise his/her violent
> tendencies.
Many crimes, violent and lethal ones, are commited in an attempt to avoid
being captured, tried, convicted, and executed. These crimes at the very
least can be instantly eliminated by eliminating the death penalty. If
you take away someone's hope, you make that person desperate, and
desperate people are capable of anything. And they usualy do a whole lot
more damage when they are desperate, without any hope of a better future.
Hope is the only thing that keeps prisoners in prison, not prison
guards, or bars. If you had the power to sentence the population of an
entire prison in a major city to death, effective immidiatly, and actualy
used that power, you would find that prisoners will overpower and kill
thier guards and escape into the general populace. You will also find
that they would do anything, ANYTHING, to keep from getting caught.
Thats what happens when you have legal murder in this country.
>
> And another point - it's not too hard to frame a person for
> premeditated
> murder. All it takes is a bit of time, money, planning etc to put a
> person
> into a situation where they can be seen as having motive, to abduct
> them
> away for a while so they have no alibi, kill some poor mug, and
> plant a bit
> of DNA, personal items etc on the scene. A bit of money will buy a
> team of
> disillusioned (perhaps ex-) detectives who will provide expertise.
> Maybe
> pull off a string of similar murders beforehand to get the District
> Attorney
> all hot under the collar, and the public screaming for blood. Unless
> that
> person is wealthy enough to afford an OJ-style 'Dream Team',
> they'll
> fry/spike/choke for sure.
This is absolutely true, the system is no where near good enough to
sentence only the guilty. I doubt it is even 50% accurate when you are
dealing with capital punishment cases.
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