So another prisoner was executed. Yeah, I’m talking about the guy who was a cofounder of the Crips.
The older I get, the more I see how imperfect the world is and the more I realize how wrong execution is. When I was younger, I had a pretty good handle on corporal punishment and understood how executions are a deterrent to committing crimes. I’m sure they still are for many people. What I don’t understand is how, what is held up to be the best justice system in the world still manages to execute innocent people. Our legal system constitutes guilt as being proven “beyond a shadow of a doubt.” Yet have we ever really reached that level of justice? I don’t know if this guy is innocent or guilty, but the fact he wouldn’t even admit guilt even when it could have spared him death says there is more to this story than what we know now.
“We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs
But we still can't just behave ourselves
Even if to save our own lives, so says I, WE ARE A BRUTAL KIND.”
-The Shins
The older I get, the more I see how imperfect the world is and the more I realize how wrong execution is. When I was younger, I had a pretty good handle on corporal punishment and understood how executions are a deterrent to committing crimes. I’m sure they still are for many people. What I don’t understand is how, what is held up to be the best justice system in the world still manages to execute innocent people. Our legal system constitutes guilt as being proven “beyond a shadow of a doubt.” Yet have we ever really reached that level of justice? I don’t know if this guy is innocent or guilty, but the fact he wouldn’t even admit guilt even when it could have spared him death says there is more to this story than what we know now.
“We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs
But we still can't just behave ourselves
Even if to save our own lives, so says I, WE ARE A BRUTAL KIND.”
-The Shins
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