Kidnapped girl found 18 years later

[TheMercenary]

It is the very fact that it is not a black and white logic equation which makes it a moral dilemma for society and the legal system, which eventually is responsible for prosecuting and sentencing these people to death.

[DanaC]

The question isnt whether you support an innocent person being killed. The question is are you prepared to accept the execution of innocents, which is the somewhat inevitable consequence of having capital punishment. Given that no system is infallible, you either support capital punishment and accept the reality of innocent people being executed. Or, you don't accept the execution of innocent people in which case you cannot support capital punishment. You cannot support capital punishment without accepting that innocent people will be executed.

Lookout at least has the strength of his convictions (if you'll pardon the pun).

It is not just a moral dilemma for society. It is a moral dilemma for you, as a member of that society and for you as a voting citizen.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Given that no system is infallible, you either support capital punishment and accept the reality of innocent people being executed.

I have stated that I understand it happens but I am not "ok" with it as that is how the question was poised to me. And whether you like it or not it remains a moral question for society and our legal system because there is evidence to suggest that innocent people may have been put to death wrongly and yet we still have Capital Punishment.

[DanaC]

Especially given that 'doing something dodgy' might actually be as simple as driving yourcar along a road where a murder has occurred. Or being the stepfather of a child who is later killed. Or, probably more a factor 50 years ago, being a black man in a town where someone has been killed by a black man.