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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2801620" data-attributes="member: 2189">If you don't already know, you will appreciate what is called Blackstone's Formulation.<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Blackstones-ratio.jpg/1024px-Blackstones-ratio.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />At one  time I was pro death penalty but the deeper I studied the issue, historical and contemporary,  the more I came to oppose it.  Also watching the growing number of convicted people cleared by such as the Innocence Project raises the specter that what takes place in a courtroom can and often is out of political expedience as opposed to actual justice.  My wife also works in law so I've seen it up close, especially the political angle that overwhelms the noble idea of justice.</blockquote>