I thought it’s not the State that decides, but a jury of citizens? Plus what of those who plead guilty? Lets do this: all prisoners, regardless of sentence, should be put to work to both repay their...
> “Modern crime investigation tech practically eliminates doubt.”
I would suspect you have little to no actual experience with our court system. I have to disagree vehemently. Not to mention that even with the horrific problems with *tech literacy* of those with authority, just the general and insane levels of corruption and politicization of our court system make the already unreliable tech situation often meaningless. And aside from even all of that, there remains the deep and serious problem of illegality and morality often diverging massively from each other.
In other words there are multiple layers of problems, corruption, and stupidity that permeate the entire “justice system” even after we just ignore the problem with the law itself very often being a miserable insult to the concepts of “fair” or “just.”
I would suspect you have little to no actual experience with our court system. I have to disagree vehemently. Not to mention that even with the horrific problems with *tech literacy* of those with authority, just the general and insane levels of corruption and politicization of our court system make the already unreliable tech situation often meaningless. And aside from even all of that, there remains the deep and serious problem of illegality and morality often diverging massively from each other.
In other words there are multiple layers of problems, corruption, and stupidity that permeate the entire “justice system” even after we just ignore the problem with the law itself very often being a miserable insult to the concepts of “fair” or “just.”
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