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Originally Posted by Elspode
Neither did he seem particularly vengeful. He simply wanted the sentence carried out on the basis that his brother had been sentenced to die by Tookie with no possibility of parole.
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That's vengeance, and that's why the views of the victims or their families shouldn't be included in the process - whether they are out for blood or whether they have personally forgiven. The criminal justice system isn't about wrongs against individuals, it's about wrongs against society. Victims are witnesses, and rarely get any restitution from the process, because the process is not for them.
Now, Williams did commit crimes against society, and was properly convicted and sentenced, AFAIK. I have no problem with any of the legal aspects to the case (since I really don't know much about them). My only thought is that
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I'm against the death penalty. But I think I'm even more against selective justice on the basis of fame post-verdict.
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it does matter
how they gained that post-verdict fame. Society could be well served if people thought that doing good works had a chance to commute a death sentence to life without parole.