11-26-2008, 07:05 AM
Racer X wrote:
[quote=mikeylikesit]
... and the occasional execution of someone who was never guilty of the crime charged is just so much collateral damage.
I can assure you that those people murdered be re offenders are a far higher number than those accidentally put to death. Are their lives worth less?
Your assurance means nothing!
from Genesis 18:23-32:
And Abraham drew near and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?... That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes...
And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. wrote:
also see Blackstone's formulation.
Benjamin Franklin stated it as, "it is better [one hundred] guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer".
You though would know better than these renowned thinkers?
also see the Innocence Project. http://innocenceproject.org/about/
You seem bent more on revenge than justice regardless of who gets caught in the crossfire.