Cidien Wrote:If they plead guilty they most likely are guilty. Plea bargaining also does suck but if we didn't have it we wouldn't have a system because it would be too backed up to get anything done. And I don't see anything wrong with the death penalty, especially as we use it. Hell i'm for killing rapists (not statatory obviously) instead of the lame crap that happens to them. How hard is it to not hold down a girl against her will and screw her? I don't see how anyone gets off like that....
Most likely guilty yes. But for example there are cases where the evidence is planted. Evidence which policemen can use to presure an suspected criminal from pleaing guilty so they get a reduced sentence for something they didn't do. Its just one example of many.
Also yes it helps with speeding up prosecution but is that the measurement for a succesfull system? I also think that many appointed attorey's might abuse this way of prosecuting to speed things up for themselfs.
The death penalty is a subject i'm not 100% clear of myself to be honest. On one side I think if you knowingly take a life you should be taken from your own. But three things I don't like about the way in general and the way its implemented in the US.
1. I think its a sign of civilasation to not have it. And also it puts us (my country) appart from what we see as barbaric countries like Iran, former Afghanisan.
2. People are sometimes found to be not guilty after many years. We've had 2 cases in my country in the past year where people were set free after 5+ years of wrongfull detention. Don't know about US cases but its a good posibility (especialy with jury's although I don't know if they decide those kind of penalties).
3. The Us has no problem with sentencing mentaly unstable people to death. I don't think this is right and I think this is also a big point of discussion in the US right now.
Damn, that's a mighty fine post for me if I say so myself since I'm royaly fucked up right now
