Even so, I do actually agree with you that a judicial process is a real recessity - especially before someone is to be put to death. As some have pointed out, lynch mobs have this nasty habit of grabbing the wrong person in a higher-than-acceptable percentage of cases. What if this guy was one of the parents of the childen who was trying to fight the terrorists? What if his kids were survivors?
Those actually guilty of this monstrosity deserve no mercy whatsoever. I can hardly secribe the cold fury I felt when I saw the photos of dead children laid out before weeping parents on a related thread - wosre than that at seeing the beheadings of innocents taken captive by these demons. Nevertheless, it's still wrong to punish the truly innocent.
The folks who cheer and pass out candy at news of something like this are not innocent, by the way. Through their actions, they bear at least a share of moral responsibility for the evil.
No I do belive that our courts are a joke...We have gone from protecting the victim to protecting the accused. But in comparison to other legal systems... except the U.K. (England has ir right...Tort reform is the way to go.)... The one here is better than most. Our current legal system and its structure fly in the face of the constitution. all the way up to the supreme court. When you have judges on the Bench that rule on personal political opinion or bias. the systems is flawed and needs to be restructured. The other thing is that we need to take the money out of the legal systems. Not say that people cannot sue for what they think is wrong, but institute caps on awards, and make the lawyers work for the case and the client and not the $$$$ that he/she sees coming afterwords. So our justice system a joke... YES....But it is the only one we have and it needs to be reformed.