[Grovenet] Capital punishment? I don't need nostinkin'capital punishment . . . .

[Steve Jerrett]

Jeff,


I'm still not quite sure what you are recommending.

The percentage of innocent persons incarcerated must be extremely small. I 
assume you feel just as bad for innocent citizens victimized by criminals 
freed early or given light sentences by soft judges.

 You seem very critical of the idea of incarceration. What is your 
alternative?


Steve


>> > > For me, the most compelling reason for punishment is
>> > > the protection of the rest of society.
>> >
>> > So what was society being protected from in the case of
>> > Mr. Woodward, precisely?
>>
>> Probably nothing.
>>
>> Please explain your point.
>
> If the motivation is protection, yet the system is flawed enough that
> innocent people are going to prison or t you are recommending as a 
> solutionworse, then is that protection the
> right motivation?
>
>>From a different perspective, when is everyone going to figure out that we
> can't protect people from themselves.  With criminal behavior and the
> current system of addressing it, we'll always be reacting under the guise 
> of
> protecting and allowing that and/or outside influences (politics, race,
> social class, etc.) color how we use that system to our own benefit (and 
> the
> detriment of some that are innocent like Mr. Woodward).
>
> Jeff
>
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