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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (16290)	6/8/2001 8:08:20 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

As I posted quite a while back, I support the death penalty in principle, but oppose it in practice. It's not just the certainty of guilt. It's also the quality of representation in the punishment phase. And it's whether there is any objective standard for death, or whether one person dies because the prosecutor in their jurisdiction was more passionate than the prosecutor in another jurisdiction. The criminal justice system is rife with inequalities. We all know that. If whether you live or die depends strictly on what you did, and we have a very, very high degree of certainty that you actually did it, I would support the death penalty. But when whether you live or die depend on whether you get assigned a competent or incompetent public defender, depends on whether the prosecutor is vindictive or objective, depends on how inflamed the community is, and depends most of all on whether you're poor and black or rich and white, then I can't support it.