In the rush to judgment, many innocents have been sacrificed. It is easy to point fingers, much more difficult to be sure beyond any shadow of doubt. Even when prosecutors seemed to have an air-tight case, based on eyewitness and/or victim testimony, innocents have been wrongly accused, convicted, and executed. The tragedy was doubled.
I subscribe to the idea that our system must shoulder some part of the blame for the transgressions of murderers, rapists, and other criminals whom many would condemn as being irredeemably evil. Most of these lost souls are/have been victims on one kind or another at some point in their lives. Violence begets violence.
At the same time, I very much doubt that it's in society's best interest to release violent criminals after therapy and counseling, no matter how extensive, and irrespective of cures claimed by those in this line of work. The particular brand of sickness that results in violent behavior is unfortunately too deeply integrated, as I see it, to put the lives of further innocents in jeopardy.
Let me ask you this, Mary Anne: what remedy do you see?
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- Why I support the Death Penalty
- Another Appropriate Person For Capital Punishment.
- It's hard not to support capital punishment, I certainly do;
- John Stuart Mill, the Founder of Western Liberalism, Supports the Death Penalty.
- The HZ Law
- A painless death is too good for them
- Could you accept
- Why I don't.
- I can not watch the video..or read the article whichever it is,
- It's easy to understand the upset and dismay.