From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 16:58:07 MDT
Harvey writes
> It would not surprise me at all to learn that 10% of the executions
> in this country have been of innocent people.
Do you mean truly innocent people or those not proven guilty?
Charlie (Stross) writes
> Since 1970, the recidivism rate for murderers released after
> a life sentence was served ran at roughly 1.5%.
By this you mean the rate at which convicted murderers were
caught and convicted at least one more time for murder, right?
Suppose that some person A is murdered in Britain, and suppose
that x fraction of the populace is composed of convicted
murderers whose sentences have expired. From what you have
read and what you think, do you believe that the probability
that the murder of A was by one of those x fraction to be
greater or less than x?
Charles (Hixson) writes
> OJ Simpson... was probably guilty, but the police should be fired
> and jailed for tampering with the evidence.
I take it that you disbelieve the arguments of the poster who
claims that prison enhances the criminal tendencies of the inmates?
It might then be too dangerous to imprison police officers because
of their professional knowledge.
Lee
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