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Originally Posted by Ace_O_Spades
executions... seem like a good idea until you hear about the rate of wrongful convictions
Google: David Milgard, Guy Paul Morin, Steven Truscott and more |
To stray off topic even further - I think that in nations with lesser homicide rates and consequently more attention being levelled at wrongful convictions a la Milgard and Truscott, we back further away from capital punishment. In large nations with big homicide rates, such instances receive lesser attention, with more concern placed on punishing the bad guys and reducing high homicide rates.
It also seems that huge nations/empires - the US, China, Russia/USSR, Britain back in the day, Rome - have always meted out the most severe punishments more readily than other nations of lesser power.