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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (327)	1/15/2003 3:01:18 PM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

Jorj, re >If we just imprison everyone we would pretty much eliminate all crime. < Crime rates in prison are quite high. We will have to execute everyone to eliminate all crime. Alternatively we could just make everything legal.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (327)	1/15/2003 3:01:46 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

Hmmm.... I thought, in practice, "beyond a reasonable doubt" is bound to imply that sometimes a guilty person would walk because that standard could not be met. And I thought that's at least part of the reason for a jury system. Why bother with slow, cumbersome, expensive jury trials if nothing but suspicion is required for conviction?