‘Justice’ system vice occurs more frequently than we can ever know about. I've noticed that people tend to naively believe that suffering such ethically challenged courtroom conduct can/will never happen to them.
Any wrongful charge, trial, conviction and punishment should be concerning to any law-abiding person. However statistically unlikely, the average person could someday find themselves unjustly accused and sentenced.
Ergo, whenever I hear how relieved people are when someone [usually a male] is charged with a serious or reviled crime — ‘Did they catch him? They did? Well, that’s a relief!’ — I mentally hear the phrase: ‘We’ll give ’im a fair trial, then we’ll hang ’im.’
And if I point out he may be the wrong guy who’s being railroaded, I could receive the erroneous refrain, ‘Well if he’s truly innocent, he has nothing to worry about.’
It is also why the news-media should refrain from publishing the identity of people charged with a crime — especially one of a repugnant nature, for which they are jailed pending trial (as is typically done) — until at least after they’ve been convicted. ...
While I don’t oppose the life-for-a-life ideology generally behind capital punishment, society/humanity is in no moral position to dish out such serious and irreversible sentences with wrongful convictions being such a frightening reality.
‘Justice’ system vice occurs more frequently than we can ever know about. I've noticed that people tend to naively believe that suffering such ethically challenged courtroom conduct can/will never happen to them.
Any wrongful charge, trial, conviction and punishment should be concerning to any law-abiding person. However statistically unlikely, the average person could someday find themselves unjustly accused and sentenced.
Ergo, whenever I hear how relieved people are when someone [usually a male] is charged with a serious or reviled crime — ‘Did they catch him? They did? Well, that’s a relief!’ — I mentally hear the phrase: ‘We’ll give ’im a fair trial, then we’ll hang ’im.’
And if I point out he may be the wrong guy who’s being railroaded, I could receive the erroneous refrain, ‘Well if he’s truly innocent, he has nothing to worry about.’
It is also why the news-media should refrain from publishing the identity of people charged with a crime — especially one of a repugnant nature, for which they are jailed pending trial (as is typically done) — until at least after they’ve been convicted. ...
While I don’t oppose the life-for-a-life ideology generally behind capital punishment, society/humanity is in no moral position to dish out such serious and irreversible sentences with wrongful convictions being such a frightening reality.
It's such a horrible shame that I want to admire Governor Santis for all of the really good things that he does but he spoils it with death warrants.
RDS is a ghoul.