Odds are irrelevant. The fact that it HAS happened alone proves that the sacrifice of any personal freedoms or liberties is not worth the added security.
People have been wrongly executed in the
past for capital crimes they did not commit. Granted, in the above examples, nearly all of them had shady pasts to begin with, so they make poor examples. The only case I could find where a completely innocent man was tried, convicted, sentenced to death and subsequently killed for a crime he did not commit was
Timothy Evans.
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Originally Posted by Coys1882
And I know the response will be 'what about David Milgard? Wrongfully convicted because of interrogations' - it happens sometimes and it sucks. It's the same as crying vaccinations cause autism, sometimes maybe it does but the risk is worth it in the long run.
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Yes, yes, it's easy to be on the outside looking in and say the risk is worth it. But what happens when it's you in the interrogation room, hmm? I would enjoy watching you eat those words, because I have my doubts that you'd be man enough to keep that mindset while you're the one being actively investigated.
I have
another passage of wisdom for you, by Pastor Martin Niemöller:
Quote:
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
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When you're sitting in an interrogation room for an ongoing investigations into a serious, violent crime, and you are actually innocent, I can guarantee you the thought going through your head will not be 'I have nothing to fear, for I am innocent,' but rather, '
Oh God... why do they suspect me? What if somehow the evidence they have points to me?'