[Grovenet] Capital punishment? I don't need no stinkin'capital punishment . . . .

[Jeff Howden]

> > > For me, the most compelling reason for punishment is
> > > the protection ot the rest of society.
> >
> > So what was society being protected from in the case of
> > Mr. Woodward, precisely?
> 
> Probably nothing.
> 
> Please explain your point.

If the motivation is protection, yet the system is flawed enough that
innocent people are going to prison or worse, then is that protection the
right motivation?

>From a different perspective, when is everyone going to figure out that we
can't protect people from themselves.  With criminal behavior and the
current system of addressing it, we'll always be reacting under the guise of
protecting and allowing that and/or outside influences (politics, race,
social class, etc.) color how we use that system to our own benefit (and the
detriment of some that are innocent like Mr. Woodward).

Jeff