Originally Posted by
David Vincent
I believe murderers deserve to be executed. That statement says nothing about how we decide if someone is guilty of murder. We will never know for certain if someone really is guilty because we don't have perfect knowledge. Sometimes innocent people will be executed because we couldn't be bothered finding an improved way of discovering guilt. But no system is ever perfect and sometimes someone will be found guilty of murder because of some freak occurrence or coincidence that defies logic or reason. It is the same with any crime. If you stopped punishing people because there is a one in a billion chance that they are innocent then no one would be found guilty of any crime.