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Originally Posted by Yen_HerbalRevenue
Yes but this system you suggest would also be imperfect. The same innocent are punished due to this human element. I am only say there is no perfect answer. But in a extreme case where there is no doubt, the death penalty is the only punishment that fits the crime.
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There are plenty of examples of cases, where the existed absolutely zero doubt about the guilt of an accused. Look at the cases of the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven in the UK. They were convicted in the 1970s for involvement in IRA bombing in London, and the trial judge expressed his indignation that they could not be sentenced to death.
As it turned out, the police fabricated evidence, and beat confessions out of them -- as they fitted the profile of what they supposed an IRA terrorist would be.
Had they been convicted about 10 years earlier, they would have gone to the gallows and swung. In 1989 the verdicts against them were quashed, and they walk free men and women.
This is the flaw in the system.