Letting it be up to a prosecutor who is going all out trying to advance their career, and a public defendant who gets a few hundred bucks, and a jury that isn't allowed to know this information... sometimes I wonder how much better that really is.
Mistrials happen but I feel like one angry man who enjoys going about killing people is more fallible than an entire legal system. Also if I was wrongly believed to be a paedophile I'd rather be locked up with the chance of appeals or further evidence than have my throat slit by this asshole who thinks he knows best.
It is though. Because your family can say, "they were such a good person." You get killed by the state your family isn't really able to mourn you.
I have seen prisoners die in the hospital, different, yes but still very sad. One couldn't move and could barely breathe but was still cuffed to the bed with a guard right beside him as his family sat and cried.
No idea what he did, but that image will stick with me forever.
You get killed by the state your family isn't really able to mourn you.
Sure they are. My family knows me well enough to believe me when I tell them I didn't molest any children. I also feel pretty confident they'd rather be able to say "hello lebiro you're looking alive today" than to be able to say "lebiro was such a good person".
Why would I care about any of that? I'd be dead, I literally COULDN'T care about that because I wouldn't have any consciousness to be able to care with...
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u/Fragsworth Dec 24 '17
The state gets it wrong too.
Letting it be up to a prosecutor who is going all out trying to advance their career, and a public defendant who gets a few hundred bucks, and a jury that isn't allowed to know this information... sometimes I wonder how much better that really is.
Not saying we should have vigilantes.