Yesterday I read the appalling news of an execution in Pakistan. The victim had always maintained his innocence, was a minor at the time of the alleged offence, and made a confession apparently under torture. What is more his execution had been stayed at the time it was carried out.
That is the real problem with capital punishment; someone must be executed at all costs. If the authorities can't find the right person, then anybody will do. So long as someone is executed, the general populace is conned into believing that justice has been done. What justice? Is judicial murder justice? No. Killing is not justice. It is nothing more than revenge.
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