Frankly I find it barbaric and think it should be abolished

  • Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    Exactly how do you propose we do that,

    Because that’s the entire purpose of the criminal Justice system, having an impartial judge and 12 people and lawyers to work it out and figure it out, you would think all those people could come to the right conclusion!

    What maddens me is that the criminal justice system considers inadmissible as evidence, not allowed to use our instinctive skills like body language reading, intuitively knowing when someone’s lying or telling the truth, instincts, etc to contribute to coming to conclusions. In my opinion muddles the whole system because they need evidence and then you get people like OJ Simpson’s & Casey Anthony’s lawyers who literally let them get away with murder, lawyers find all these legal loopholes to let these people literally get away with murder and something really needs to be fixed. Intuition and common sense need to be allowed in the courtroom.

    Please forgive my poor sentence structure, but you get the gist of what I’m saying.

    • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
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      I get what you’re saying, but you still haven’t shown any reason why a different system, built around fallible people, wouldn’t also send innocent people to death row. Trusting people’s intuition won’t change that, although it might change the mix of innocent people sent to death row.