It is both delightful and instructive
to witness America's joy and indignation over first the judicial miscarriage, and
then the acquittal, of the Girl of the Golden
West, Amanda Knox. It's too bad that in America, such indignation and mass mobilization
isn't triggered when someone convicted at a trial based on fragile
circumstantial evidence or testimony that is later recanted is put to death, having
been defended by fourth-tier lawyers rather than by formidable attorneys like Giulia Bongiorno.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
The moral of the story? The
administration of justice is in all countries and in all times, even in the
most civilized nations, an approximation of truth. That is a definitive reason for
abolishing the death penalty, an irreversible sanction inflicted by human
justice that is, by definition, relative. At least until we invent a technique
to raise the dead.
