Humans are flawed, and therefore our justice system is flawed. Every innocent man put to death in America is essentially tax-payer funded murder. And yes, innocent men have been, and are, being put to death plenty.
Humans are flawed, and therefore our justice system is flawed. Every innocent man put to death in America is essentially tax-payer funded murder. And yes, innocent men have been, and are, being put to death plenty.
You are totally correct, but do you propose a better system? I mean I'm guessing you agree people need to be held accountable, but I surely hope you don't think we have the means to house people indefinitely on the "assumption" that they MAY end up being found "not guilty"?
He's too retarded to be executed, but not retarded enough to abduct and shoot a police officer, among the other aggravated robbery charges before hand. He obviously had a family, so his mama and sisters should have helped raise their poor, simple minded son right.
Im speaking coming from a family with multiple brothers with mental disabilities, and our parents never let their kids run the streets doing whatever they wanted til it snowballed into drugs and crimes. They take care of them and their disabilities. Its really hard for me to comprehend how some parents can be so careless they dont even bother with raising their kids properly.
I hope you didn't take my unwillingness to list every single aspect of it in my post as the only reasons it costs so much but those were examples of things that increase costs.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty
The study they base their findings on: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/cali...ost-study-2011
A seperate analysis of an older study (2003) http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/i...h-penalty-cost
Again, no one is saying people aren't accountable for what they do. That's a tired strawman.
But if our environment shapes us then certainly some environments shape us to be criminal in nature, correct? Like poverty? So while someone who grew up poor is still responsible for what he did, the environment he grew up in is also, in part, to blame. Correct?
Has there ever been a person executed that could be classified as completely sane*? Normal people just don't the kind of things that end up in execution.
* I'm excluding military executions, because sometimes the only sane thing to do is run away even if you would have risked being executed as a coward.
"Othering" criminals is not a good idea.Has there ever been a person executed that could be classified as completely sane*? Normal people just don't the kind of things that end up in execution.
I don't understand how they based his intelligence off a 9th grade school reading book. I've read Of mice and men and first off Lennie didn't even mean to kill the girl so I am not sure how this case relates to the other.
Because people need to understand crime and why it happens. When we just say "oh he was a bad man" we pave the way for all kinds of ignorance and horribleness. We need to understand that we're products of the world we're in and that if we really want to deal with crime we need to deal with the environment that breeds crime.
"Othering" people, who ever they are, is just an excuse for not wanting to try to understand. And willful ignorance is never acceptable.
People should be able to attempt to prove their innocence as often as they can (within reason, like two within two weeks etc... isn't what I mean) If there is enough evidence to prove innocence then you already shouldn't be killing them. They're supposed to be '100% guilty' anyway, last I checked we weren't killing and imprisoning people on a hunch.
I'm only against the death penalty because we have no strong way to be sure someone committed the crime. I mean, look at all the people who were exonerated when DNA evidence started being used. However, excluding the chance of putting a innocent man to death, mental facilities should have nothing to do with death penalties. If you are so retarded that you can't tell right from wrong, you're better off dead and we're better off having you dead. The only thing that matters is if you did it or not, which police are often are wrong, corrupt, and/or overzealous when it comes to figuring that out.
The second we have facilities to be able to tell if someone committed a crime with a 99.99% (100% is just fantasy) then off to the meat grinder all the pedophiles, rapists, murderers, and corporate thieves who steal peoples life savings via stock market go.
You're getting exactly what you deserve.
You admit that people are effected by their environment. If that is the case then the environment is part of why people become criminals. Again, and I know you'll try this one again, no one is saying that people aren't responsible for the crimes they commit. But that doesn't mean that environment is not also part of the equation.
Which is why crime is so much more prevalent among african americans. Because they tend to live in poverty compared to whites.