You can't build the prison system and the punishment/rehabilitation system around the chance of a wrongful conviction.
The penalty part of the justice system should be built around the assumption of a proper conviction.
The wrongful conviction question belongs in the courts, not in the execution of the sentence handed down by the courts.
And I don't consider the death sentence to be torture to be honest, I consider it a easier punishment then what some of these scumbags deserve.
Again, is there any doubt that Homolka, Pickton, Olson Williams and Bernardo were guilty?
Homolka got off lightly because of lawyer misconduct, the justice system fails both ways.
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