Quote: (10-18-2018 07:08 AM)Rossi Wrote:
I think death penalty should be enforced, but only for crimes that are %100 proven. Such as from camera's and so on. Nowadays, a lot of crimes are caught by cameras anyway. I would rather rely on camera footage's than some shady dna evidences.
^Exactly right.
This is the specific crime that shaped my opinion of this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut,_home_invasion_murders
The guy interviewed broke into a home, brutalized every family member (the father was so badly beaten that people didn't recognize him after), raped an eleven year old girl and the mother, and then burned them alive. There is a legitimate public interest in executing people like this.
But "beyond a reasonable doubt" is NOT an adequate standard to sentence someone to death.
If 1) the crime is heinous (murder, serial child raping, etc) and 2) It can be proven beyond any doubt whatsoever, then the death penalty should be available.
"Beyond any doubt whatsoever" would include definitive video or photographic evidence, a confession supported by multiple witnesses and genetic material, etc.