Carla...

The unfortunate truth here is that we have history to prove what should be done with the murderer. When you don't handle this type of situation correctly, everyone suffers.

Removing the murderer from this life allows the victim to be a hero for giving their life so others will not lose theirs. It gives deep meaning to the victims life, comforts the loved ones and protects the rest of us.

Concerning the errors in the court system that put innocent people to death...

You are making the all too common mistake of breaking one system to try and fix another. This is a bad way to run a country and is—ironically—the same philosophy that gave us this broken mess.

There is a saying that expresses this:

"Hard cases make bad law."

Hard cases are opportunity for mercy, which is why the law must be in the hands of a fully informed and empowered jury.

There are several deliberately destructive changes that have been made to the U.S. court system that has broken it.

One is that the jury can no longer judge law.

A "fully informed" jury was supposed to have the right to say "innocent" if the law that was being used against someone was faulty. This powerful mechanism put the citizens in the single most powerful position in government and was the final check of power—by putting citizens in judgement of the law, they had the power to nullify bad law, and this bad law is what usually puts innocent people into jail.

The other deliberately destructive change is that the jury was supposed to be "well acquainted" with the accused.

This puts them in a much better position to judge the character of the accused and much more likely to offer mercy if the accused was known to be well-intentioned.

Another important principle is the Biblical principle that a crime must have more than one witness.

This helps prevent false positives as well. An example of this would be the calibration of breathalyzer machines. Two officers should be required to sign off on this calibration process and if it was ever found to be in error, they could be tried in the context of conspiracy. Plus, errors in these machines—which often are calibrated in favor of a guitly verdict—would be greatly reduced. This is a powerful principle.

These awesome checks-of-power would prevent nearly all false accusations and would properly fix the intentionally broken system. Saving the lives of murders is exactly the wrong answer and if history and/or the Bible was your teacher, you would have known this.

When you study this out, you find that the Bible was right again. America was the greatest experiment in this regard and the experiment was tremendously successful. We should have learned, but as usual, people forget and supercede logic with their own emotional overlays; Always a bad idea except in the execution of mercy.

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