“Better to have ten guilty go free than one innocent punished”
Uh, the premise is wrong. You can walk and chew gum. I would rather 10 murderers behind bar/sentenced to death AND innocents not be in jail in the first place. Those who are “wrongly” convicted got the raw end of the deal due to their/their lawyers’ incompetence. If there is malice involved, prosecute those who fabricated evidence. Simple.
You're missing the point. It's not "what would a perfect world be like?" but, instead, "Is it better that the guilty should die, or that the innocent should live?"
In the theological sense, certainly none of us are innocent; but the government's job never was to render that sort of judgment based on the heart, but rather to protect it's people and their land and to promote righteousness by punishing evil actions... and in the sense of fabricated evidence and malicious prosecution, both erode and run counter to government's second purpose.
I would rather 10 murderers behind bar/sentenced to death AND innocents not be in jail in the first place
Uh,you should move to North Korea where those in charge agree with your mindset that the state should have more power.