Guilty until proven innocent...
observations on this life
Just watched a Court TV program about five men and one woman wrongly convicted of rapes and murders who spent up to 22 years, in the case of one man, on death row. All were found to be innocent through DNA testing or new trials, or confessions of the actual person (s) who committed the crimes. As somone who does not understand the concept of murdering murders, I'm especially repulsed by how many innocent people have been locked up in violent institutions for crimes they did not commit. Why is there not a constitutional admendment that allows for reparations to be paid to these people for all the time they lost in the world. Everything else in our society has a price. What is one day on death row worth? What kind payment is fair for someone who sat in a cell the size of most people's closets and had that knowing that one day they would come for you and take your life?
I say one million dollars from the state for every year they sat and waited to die or to be set free. They should be provided with any kind of counseling or therapy they want or need to make themselves somewhat whole again. They should be given a house and a car and a free college education at any school in the state system not only for them, but for their children, and their children's children.
An eye for an eye is an old proverb and needs to be ignored.... We are much more intelligent creatures than the ancient tribal people who wrote that.....