You are going to have type 1 and type 2 errors

type 1 - guilty go free
type 2 - innocent are punished.

>You would rather have innocent people
>die just to have some
>"deserving" criminals be murdered?
>Regardless of whether it's one
>of a hundred, or one
>out of five.. innocent people
>are dying just so somebody
>can feel better about another
>man's death

So you would not punish james byrd's killers with the death penalty? Sorry, them boys deserve to die. You wouldn't execute a chronic wife abuser who ultimately murdered his wife? I know I would in a heartbeat.

that's where you and I differ. I've worked in the criminal justice system, for a defense attorney. Nothing is as idealistic as you cats are making it out to be.

peace
k. orr
former law clerk