and then you run into the opposite extreme where you execute an innocent but convicted man.and then you run into the opposite extreme where you execute an innocent but convicted man.
The world is not perfect.
No one is executed without a trial, and then appeals. The process takes years. So I would say the chance of an innocent person being executed is way smaller then the chance of an innocent person dying at the hands of a convicted criminal. Those innocent victims do not have a trial nor appeal, they are just dead.
So I don’t buy the argument we can not execute people because somehow someway and innocent person may die.
Well we all face death every day
I agree, and I’m not arguing against the death penalty.
This DA might be an idiot with the reforms he is making. But at least he is not naive to think that there is not some cost to what he is doing.
But I really question whether a DA is meant to have such authority or is entitled by law to make such decisions.
Lock up the DA’s who exceed their authority with lives lost as a result.