However, the problem becomes how do you implement such a policy appropriately - in the face of the known problems and injustices with how it has historically been implemented in the US and most of the rest of the world.
Many years ago I came to the conclusion that I believed a fair system would apply the death penalty only where a person had 3 totally separate and unrelated convictions based on hard physical evidence (and not relatively weak "eyewitness" testimony or other things : for example, my memory is that their are cases where people have been convicted of murder completely absent of any evidence of the "missing" body). I would require a separate sentencing trial by judge not involved in any of the three convictions - and really good defense lawyers provided to the "accused" to validate the evidence and reasons for the 3 convictions.
A brief investigation back then of the criminal history of a number of death row inmates in various states at the time revealed that only something like only 2 to 3% of them might meet my standard of 3 suitable convictions (a more detailed investigation into the basis of their convictions would be warranted).
This raises the issue of cost effectiveness of setting up and administration of a death penalty program for only a few people.
So. I will admit that I believe that an appropriate death penalty system could be set-up to protect the innocent and poorly represented; and that in some cases that the death penalty could be appropriate.
However, in the end. I do not believe that it would be cost effective to do so. Locking these few up for life would be cheaper.
I will not support any death penalty within the court system absent a program like my idea of "3 strikes" based on hard evidence and a 4th hearing to challenge and validate those charges and the evidence.
Perry
Though I don''t agree and never will agree with state sponsored death, I see the relevance in your proposition. I see it mainly, because your proposition makes a lot of sense while also providing many safe guards against the injustices that have occurred and continue to occur with the administration of the Death Penalty as we have known it.
Finally, you have provided many intelligent, well reasoned, and thought out alternatives to the present system of how capital offenders continue to be sent to their deaths in the 38 different state sponsored death houses nationwide including the federal gulag.
Your''s is an excellent starting place to beginning to insure fairness and impartiality, hopefully leading to the complete abolishment of the death penalty in America.
That is what I would really like to see happen.
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