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**movlabs** · 09-22-2011, 08:24 PM

So you can lock someone up for life without under reasonable doubt, but you need certainty to execute them? Sorry, don't buy it. Either they're guilty or not guilty. The standards have to be the same.

In point of fact, if you're falsely convicted of murder, you're better off getting a death sentence, since that will put more people, resources, and access behind your appeals. If Troy Davis had been given life (and especially if it wasn't life without), we'd never have heard of him, guilty or innocent.

The issue here is - even if you accept the appropriateness of the death penalty - the standard by which it's applied. It should be at the level of certainty..

09-22-2011, 08:24 PM	#18
movlabs Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 371 Senior Member	So you can lock someone up for life without under reasonable doubt, but you need certainty to execute them? Sorry, don't buy it. Either they're guilty or not guilty. The standards have to be the same. In point of fact, if you're falsely convicted of murder, you're better off getting a death sentence, since that will put more people, resources, and access behind your appeals. If Troy Davis had been given life (and especially if it wasn't life without), we'd never have heard of him, guilty or innocent. The issue here is - even if you accept the appropriateness of the death penalty - the standard by which it's applied. It should be at the level of certainty..
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