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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: one_less who wrote (783019)5/1/2014 5:21:56 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 1577978
 
The latest research I read said 1 in 25 is innocent. And a lot of that is corruption in the judicial system and all the more reason to not execute people as so many are set up by bad cops and judges.

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>>>2) What about all the innocent people we execute by accident?<<<

I am not aware of innocent people being executed. However, in any large system accidents are to be expected. If the statistic presented on this thread is to be believed, hundreds of thousands of accidents occur in the medical field, for example. In any event the Justice system isn’t that good. There is corruption, incompetency, and loop holes all over the place. It is, however, the system we are stuck with because we are only human. In the case of heinous criminals it is usually the case that there is a history of heinous brutality and other criminal behavior prior to the conviction. So how many truly innocent do you figure there are? I figure there are multiples of truly guilty who get off for reasons like insufficient evidence or lack of available evidence.
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