--- Tapani Bagge <
tapani.bagge@armas.fi> wrote:
> But what if the verdict is wrong, and you hang
an
> innocent guy?
> Someone who just happens to look like Ted
Bundy?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
That's what the jury's for. If the murderer is probably
guilty but there is unreasonable doubt, then he gets life
imprisonment and we see what his lawyer and the state can
find out about the crime over time. But if the killer doesn't
even dispute what he's done; if the evidence is overwhelming
against him, why would we keep someone like this around?
Anyone in prison is eventually going to get out. The US
prison system is simply not designed to keep anyone
incarcerated indefinitely. The only reason, THE ONLY REASON,
Charles Manson and his disciples are not out of prison right
now is due to the constant effort of the Tate family, going
to all their parole hearings and opposing their release. The
moment the Tate family decide they've got something better to
do, those people will be released. And frankly, I don't think
it would be a big deal. I doubt those people are in any way
dangerous today and if they were release they'd, everyone of
them, be gainfully employed in media within hours of freedom.
If Fox News can find work for Oliver North, they can
certainly find something for Charley Manson to do. But that
aside, in a "just" society, their lives would be forfited for
the way they murdered people in 1969. And there's no doubt
they did it; not a question.
Please understand me. I am all for the concept of reasonable
doubt, and I'm fully aware that in more cases than we want to
admit, unreasonable doubt is actually the truth of what
happened. If doubt exists, life must be spared. But where
there's no doubt and the motive is lust or amusement, or
there's no motive at all, "just happened to be feeling that
way without warning,"? Would we tolerate a tiger wandering
the neighborhood? Once a dog has bitten a child, what do we
do with it? But these people who wander our highways killing
at whim we have to tolerate because of some hokus pokus about
they're being "human." If they were human we wouldn't be
having this conversation.
Patrick King
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