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Originally Posted by Ross
If my son or daughter even were accused of something so terrible as a murder I would be ashamed. Its not very often the Police get the wrong person these days. Yes it can happen and that is something has to be looked at but I am all for the people who are 100% guilt being given the Death Penalty. Cases were evidence is so much that you know they did it.
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Context is important. You left out THIS part of my quote..."David Milgaard, Guy Morin and how many other people are being let go who've been on death row for years. In my opinion, even ONE mistaken execution is too much. Why? Because it COULD be my son or daughter."
If MY child was accused and convicted of murder and all the evidence pointed at them, sure, I'd be ashamed. They'd also deserve the punishment they receive.
In the FULL example I posted however, what if you KNEW your child simply wasn't capable of the crime OR even had an alibi for them that was somehow overlooked or inadmissable? Remember, we're not talking about the JUSTICE system here...we're talking about the LEGAL system. Once the police and prosecutors have their blinders on, they will do almost ANYTHING to get the conviction. It's been proven how many times that they'll misrepresent or misplace evidence to get a conviction? It may be rare, but even once is too much. And again, people can and WILL make mistakes.
In 50 years, perhaps they'll find out that the DNA evidence we're using today is so primitive it's laughable and that it's not as reliable as we seem to think it is.