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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