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Donald Ian Rankin

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32. Your selective trust in the judicial system is striking.

Reply to saturnsring (Reply #27)

Fri Mar 11, 2016, 02:48 PM

Mar 2016

You trust the system to infallibly identify people to kill, but not to reliable operate prisons?

Personally, I'm happy to run a very small risk of being wrongly imprisoned, and incur the moral hazard of being partly responsible for occasionally wrongly imprisoning others, in exchange for the personal security of being massively less likely to be a victim of crime, and the moral good of making others safer. But I'm not willing to pay the additional risk of myself or others being wrongly executed in exchange for the tiny and questionable additional gains the death penalty would bring.

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Escaped inmate killed by father of family he took hostage. [View all] linuxman Mar 2016 OP

He picked the wrong house! Dustlawyer Mar 2016 #1

Everything was going according to plan! linuxman Mar 2016 #2

Wow, right on cue! HERVEPA Mar 2016 #5

Yep, here you are! linuxman Mar 2016 #6

Yep, you're right on cue. GGJohn Mar 2016 #9

Seems multiple cues exist at any one time... LanternWaste Mar 2016 #15

Should have tried it in DC or Chicago.. TipTok Mar 2016 #26

good case for thedeath penalty - crazed killers who are executed dont get to escape to kill again saturnsring Mar 2016 #3

Sorry, I don't believe there is such a thing as a good case for Death Penalty OriginalGeek Mar 2016 #12

he ended up getting the death penalty anyway saturnsring Mar 2016 #19

well if you can't see the difference OriginalGeek Mar 2016 #23

i see the difference i just dont think it's significant saturnsring Mar 2016 #24

He shouldn't have been allowed to escape. OriginalGeek Mar 2016 #25

correct he shouldnt but they do and even the ones that dont saturnsring Mar 2016 #27

Your selective trust in the judicial system is striking. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2016 #32

the group that convicts isnt the same group that guards saturnsring Mar 2016 #34

No - juries are ignorant amateurs; guards are trained professionals. N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2016 #35

There is the minor detail sarisataka Mar 2016 #13

another minor detail: i wasnt refering specifically and only to him saturnsring Mar 2016 #21

I am confused sarisataka Mar 2016 #28

i support both that being said if we, as a nation, get rid of the dp i wouldnt care saturnsring Mar 2016 #31

I'll take my chances, the odds are in my favor... Human101948 Mar 2016 #4

Stop making sense HERVEPA Mar 2016 #8

Cool. You can show the escaped inmate the study, I'll take a firearm. Bonx Mar 2016 #10

I can safely bet my retirement that you will never face that situation... Human101948 Mar 2016 #17

I'm a fan of being prepared, because you never know. Bonx Mar 2016 #18

just like that florida woman saturnsring Mar 2016 #22

Here's a better article. Brickbat Mar 2016 #7

When the chief said sarisataka Mar 2016 #11

Statistically, McCloud will be a victim of gun violence. Bonx Mar 2016 #14

No, I know -- and it makes sense for him to say that. Brickbat Mar 2016 #16

True sarisataka Mar 2016 #20

We agree. Brickbat Mar 2016 #29

Good! TexasMommaWithAHat Mar 2016 #30

.^that 840high Mar 2016 #33