09-27-2009, 12:18 PM
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 Re: Shouldn't Innocence Matter?
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Originally Posted by Andreas  A judicial or law system should have two major guidelines: the human life and dignity are invulnerable and innocent to be proven guilty.
Under such a premise you will have to make (as a judge) very difficult decisions, especially when your own emotions speak a different language as the law. For instance: for November this year is the execution of John Allen Muhammad scheduled. I have no doubt that Muhammad is guilty and i have no doubt that it was very devious and evil what this person has done. To name him a terrorist is not wrong, because what he did was a kind of terror. He had a co-defendant who also killed victims. He got no DP. Which victims relatives are now more satisfied ? Those who will see Muhammad being put to death or those who canīt see the same for Lee Boyd Malvo ? Or are they both satisfied because the society did all to catch those individuals and make the society safe again ?
Would the society become damaged when Muhammad would stay alive ? He canīt endanger anyone in the free world, it means the main task of the authorities is fullfilled or am i wrong ? | Andreas, what are the details as to why the court did not give the DP to the co-defendent? There has to be a reason. They kill inside prison too, so they are a danger to society still, prisons a society too, other inmates and staff. Its not about which victims are more satisfied. From inside prison the hard wired kill people in the free worldl, with help of course from the inside and outside.
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