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Originally Posted by Relentless
The death penalty does not work. Worse than that, it has resulted in the State killing innocent people and HUNDREDS of people on death row have been exonerated thanks to advances in tech that didn't exist at the time of their crimes (DNA for example). http://www.innocenceproject.org/know/ |
It is because of those advances in tech that many want to retable the discussion.
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When we are 100% certain of guilt we can use a permanent penalty.
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It is only in such cases that I would be open to the notion of it, and I already mentioned a few. There was zero doubt due to evidence in the cases I mentioned.
To be honest I sort of find anyone who would be opposed to a Paul Bernardo being put to death to be a bit touched in the head and in need of supervision themselves.
Google it if unfamiliar with the name.
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
btw.. I don't know that the patient wasn't 100% ok to go for an unsupervised activity. I would surmise this decision was made by the head doctors of the facility and a board of specialists that have been monitoring and evaluating his progress. Their big failure in my opinion, was in creating a situation in what should have been obvious to even a child, would quickly become a PR shit storm. He could have been "supervised" and it would have not made the news.
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At the very least the guy should never be unsupervised again, in any capacity, in my opinion.