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Originally posted by Dave:
I'm firmly against it, for a number of reasons;

1. too error-prone. Judges are human - they fuck up, and so do cops.

2. too inhumane. As Butter says, a government which executes prisoners is murderous.

Anyone who thinks prison life is soft hasn't seen the inside of a prison.

As for a legal system vs a justice system, the idea is that the system would rather let 100 guilty men go free than have one innocent man imprisoned. I like that system - it errs on the side of caution, and means the power of the state respects the rights of its citizens. Over the border in mainland China, its the opposite - no respect for human rights and the rights of individuals, throw them all in gaol or kill them. Its not right.
well, on the part of judge error, most cases that end in the death penilty, usually have a jury. in other words, 12 other people, than the judge, deciede this, and they pick the penelty, i do believe!