Innocent until proven guilty.
Innocent until proven guilty.
Yep a small $1 lead injection would fix him.
I don't advocate for the death penalty because innocent people pay the ultimate price sometimes. However for this Baby raper I would make an exception.
Stick him in jail with a sign on his back saying what he was convicted of .
Big bubba will sort him out .
Innocent until proven guilty.
OK it was more than 10 years ago but Andrew Mallard would argue that people can still be wrongfully convicted.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mallard
Whilst we're posting wiki info. The confusion during the trial of the last person executed in Aus should deter any thoughts of bringing capital punishment back.
I'd highly recommend reading the entire exert if you have a spare 30mins, read the book or watch the film(s).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ryan
To put it in short...
Ronald Ryan was a career criminal (burglary/theft) and was convicted of shooting a warden whilst escaping prison to see his wife, whom he heard had filed for divorce. The details & conflicting eyewitness reports were very sketchy, and although he had many opportunities to shoot whilst escaping, it coincided with a shot from a distant tower to an unarmed (I think) warden that was standing very close to him. The shot was only admitted to many years after his execution by the warden that pulled the trigger...it was argued by another warden that there was no such shot.
Eyewitnesses have come forward since the execution that claim he never fired a shot and forensics never checked the gun or found a bullet or casing. His family still grieve (I know one of his daughters, married to a mate of mine), she & her siblings still obviously claim his innocence.
what are you basing this on mark? it's your own opinion. it's not 'easier to get off' these days. if anything it's more difficult; the laws have swung back in favour of harsher penalties and less leeway for accused persons.
and you don't prove your innocence in this country, never have. it's up to the prosecution to prove you're guilty.
I'd have to agree with Mark, it would be extremely rare, if at all that someone truly innocent get convicted of anything these days. And that's truly innocent, not getting off on a technicality or loophole, or off on appeal without unequivocal evidence they are innocent, or someone claiming innoncence via the moral high ground because they think the applicable law is unfair or unjust.
Truly innocent isnt the point, your talking about sentencing, cause death, life or however many years is a sentence, and a sentence reflects the seriousness of a crime.
If a cop fakes evidence or evidence isn't put forward through whatever reason, maybe a witness didnt come forward till later. Etc .etc......
it has a bearing on the case and sentenced handed down, so if you murdered someone, then later it was found all evidence was not produced does that not have an effect?? Especially if it goes towards proving there was some amount of doubt or even a level of self defence, which would reduce the sentence.
There are numerous cases of sentences reduced on appeal, they may not be innocent but there sentence should reflect all the case facts.
