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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
Kevin, I'm not saying to close a case based on DNA alone, because DNA is only an additonal recent tool available to the courts in determining a person's guilt or innocence. I was only speaking of all things being equal, meaning all the facts are in place to convict a person of murder. Once everything is in place and it's known that this person is 100% guilty of committing the crime, why the appeal? It's a waste of time and money. You're throwing in your assessment of the committed crime vs. my assessment of the committed crime. My argument is the person being 100% guilty of committing the crime of murder. Once that is established, there should be no appeal, no prison time, no bond, just a sentence being imposed and carried out that same day. That's all I'm saying. Let the sentence be carried out at the time it's imposed.
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Part of the problem is, we are 100+ years away from dispensing 'frontier justice' and we still have organizations in the US that still see simply putting a man to death as barbaric. Think about human rights groups.
Just look at this board. Some people are for the death penalty if it truly sticks while some are against it and would rather let a guilty criminal live.
Trust me, I feel the same way you do, but in some cases, death is just too 'easy'.
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