Re: never a day passes (death penalty)

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 01:13:30 MST


"Alex Ramonsky" <alex@ramonsky.com> Wrote:

> I'm absolutely astonished that nobody's said it......How do you know
>if you're executing an innocent guy?

You don't. If you waited for certitude before you made an action you would
be as immobile as a rock.

>DNA testing is not infallible.

True but about as close to infallible as you will find in the real world.

>if you execute them, then you find out twenty years later the guy you
>killed was in fact innocent, what do you do then?

That's easy, you do nothing as nothing can be done.

         John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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