Here's Why Capital Punishment Needs to Go

[Dylan]

[Dylan]

[Spider]

[exploited]

(Doesn't support the status quo, supports the status quo)

[Philly]

Ok I don't even know what this thread is supposed to be about anymore. I wanna go back to the start:

Why is the guy from Indy's first post an example of why capital punishment needs to go? If the argument is that we might execute an innocent man, then his is a story of the system working. He was not executed. But, as Indy noted, his life WAS ruined, because he was imprisoned for 30 years and furthermore was denied restitution for his wrongful incarceration. So the reforms that eynon mentioned early on - particularly evening out resources for prosecutors and public defenders, or even merging them into one department - seem like something that would have helped this guy out a lot more than abolishing the death penalty.

[Dylan]

Yeah I like the idea of making them switch sides sometimes a lot. The best effect would be to get rid of the true believer prosecutors who tend to be very malicious people.

[Indy]

[Philly]

Indy - the death penalty was not the problem in that story nor in the original one you posted.

[Indy]

How's that?

[Philly]

These people's lives were ruined because they were locked up for many years for a crime they didn't commit. Neither were executed. If you didn't have a death penalty they still would have been locked up for all those years.