New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in murder

Re:New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in mu... by ben_w on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:59AM (#18033436)

This relates to a fundamental question of what the criminal justice system is for: Punishment, deterrent, undoing wrongs, etc.

I predict that I’m in the minority in believing what I’m about to say: In the unlikely event that it turned out the best way of minimising homicide was to promise every single convict £1 million and a 12 hour episode television show in their name, if that actually minimised homicide, I’d be in favour of that response to it. I will of course freely admit that the reason I can say something so shocking is because I don’t know anyone who’s been murdered.

I care about minimising the aggregate rate of all homicide, not punishment for it’s own sake.

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Re:New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in mu... by malvosenior on Thursday September 20, 2018 @02:08PM (#18034396)

Even if it did lower the aggregate homicide rate, would you want to live in a society where murdering someone was rewarded with £1 million and a tv show? I don't think the homicide rate is the only metric one can use to judge quality of life.

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Re:New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in mu... by ben_w on Friday September 21, 2018 @03:36AM (#18037868)

I understand that other people don’t think like me. For me this would be little different to the current status quo with gory horror films, which I abhor almost vitriolically.

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