Quote Originally Posted by welshwizard View Post
It's a difficult case and evokes very strong feelings. I have a daughter, now grown up, and it's likely that I would have done the same in the heat of the moment.
In most cases mob rule and summary justice are a very bad thing, not least because in many cases the target is often innocent.
My opposition to the death penalty stems largely from cases that will be well know to fellow Canadians: Donald Marshall Jr., Guy Paul Morin, and David Milgaard are just three well known examples of innocent people convicted wrongfully of heinous crimes. If we had the death penalty, there is a good chance that all three would themselves have been wrongfully executed.

"...Late breaking story on the CBC
A nation whispers, we always knew that he'd go free"

Couldn't resist a Hip reference...