Just Another Political Post.

[gekko]

The numbers are irrelevant.  The percentages of wrongfully executed are well below any threshold of error any rational process control, in a process run by humans, can be expected to achieve.  So no, I don't give a flying rat's hindquarter if it is 10 or 100.  Given the burden of proof and, if you had bothered to read an earlier post, the amount of evidence that is NOT allowed to be considered, and the filtration process that is the appeals train, I don't see the numbers increasing geometrically as you illustrate, Chicken Little.  The slope ain't that slippery.

As to if it is or was me, or my family, take your red herring bait and go fish somewhere else.  I am not a criminal, nor are my family.  We have a zero per cent chance of being executed for being First Degree Murderers, but a greater than zero chance of being killed or maimed by some lowlife scum.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Occhi
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First, I was not suggesting what the numbers are or could be. I was simply asking what you deem an acceptable rate of innocent people executed. How many innocent lives is it worth to execute one murderer?

Second, if you accept that innocent people are executed under the current system, how can you claim a zero percent chance of your family being falsely accused or convicted? By your own admission, the system executes innoncent people; and yet, somehow you and your family are magically immune?

I ask because everyone who I have ever heard use the line of reasoning you are defending here is always talking about someone's else's lives that they're just not that worried about. If you want to say you're willing to sacrifice innocent lives in order to keep executing murderers, I say it's not up to you to be selective about who gets sacrificed. That innocent person executed may not have been a family member of yours, but he/she was someone's son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister...

gekko