[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

My issue is pretty much always the same: it all hinges on the illusion that we have or can ever have a perfect criminal justice system. We just don't. Innocent people are sometimes convicted, guilty people often walk out of court free.

Until we have an infallible system then the death sentence can't be right. And we never will.

I agree with most of what you're saying.

I do wonder why using the UK as an example, why the UK courts will find someone guilty of Paedophilia, just for them to only get a 2 year sentence (I think the case that I'm thinking of was based on good behaviour) but still I see that kind of sentencing as monstrous, or the fact that Katie Piper's attacker was seen walking around in society (tagged admittedly) but again that guy shouldn't be seeing the light of day for a very long time.

Obviously I have sympathy for the justice system though when a bad person walks free or an innocent person gets wrongly convicted, because unfortunately evidence can sometimes lead you down the wrong path.