"Joan Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello Terry,
Every effort should be made to make certain the individual arrested and
tried for a crime is actually guilty. The justice system correctly comes
under attack here. No innocent should be convicted and no guilty person
should go free. In a perfect world - maybe. In the real world it isn't
so.
Joan
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: L&I Justice
> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 8:36 PM
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
> >"Joan Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> >Hello Terry,
> >
> >There appears to be no fully satisfactory solution in all cases for what
to
> >do with those who commit the crime of murder. I have felt the DP was
more
> >correct in some instances and LWOP in others. I really don't think one
can
> >say the DP deters murder any more than one can say it does not. Some
may
> >be deterred and others not.
> >
> > Joan
>
> Hi Joan,
>
> Obviously a dead Ted Bundy will kill no more but at least one serial
killer
> ("Charmer," Jack Olsen) took Bundy as a model. Those executed become
more
> of a heroic model than a caged animal like Charles Manson, even with his
> cult following. Anyway statistics seem to bear out that a death penalty
> actually increases murders rather than deters them.
>
> But my main complaint against the death penalty is that we kill innocent
> people. Few advocates of the death penalty are willing to face that.
>
> Even above that the executioner often harvests the least offensive
killers.
> Caryl Chessman, whose ghost saved many from the hangman for decades,
wrote
> about some bank robbers who killed a teller. When the driver, who had
never
> before been involved in serious crime, was executed the hardened killers
had
> escaped with their lives. As best I can recall they were already out of
> prison. They knew the ropes and had access to the best defense lawyers.
> That's pretty much the way the system works.
> Best, Terry
>
> "Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law" - The Devil's Dictionary
>
>
>
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