The UN Gnomes
24-12-2004, 10:43
Limits to Death Sentences
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Agamennon
Description: This resolution would limit the use of death sentences only where physical evidence is used to convict someone of first degree murder a combination of eye witness and physical evidence such as DNA, blood, fingerprint and other commonly accepted physical evidence. No one should face death sentence where conviction is based on circumstantial evidence. The maximum penalty should be life in prison.
Approvals: 7 (Hessen Nassau, Jeant, Rhiannzar, Mescania, North Central America, Tekania, Niehaus)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 139 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Dec 27 2004
I swear, people need to stop learning law from CSI and Law & Order. There are two kinds of evidence out there: eyewitness and circumstantial. DNA and fingerprints are circumstantial evidence.
If you're standing outside a house, hear a scream and then the thud of a body and watch a man, covered in blood, run off with a smoking shotgun... it's circumstantial!
And, really, as we learned from Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, it's not like eyewitness testimony is reliable.
This is the thing that really makes UN Gnomes cry. Legal proposals that are utter junk.
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Agamennon
Description: This resolution would limit the use of death sentences only where physical evidence is used to convict someone of first degree murder a combination of eye witness and physical evidence such as DNA, blood, fingerprint and other commonly accepted physical evidence. No one should face death sentence where conviction is based on circumstantial evidence. The maximum penalty should be life in prison.
Approvals: 7 (Hessen Nassau, Jeant, Rhiannzar, Mescania, North Central America, Tekania, Niehaus)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 139 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Dec 27 2004
I swear, people need to stop learning law from CSI and Law & Order. There are two kinds of evidence out there: eyewitness and circumstantial. DNA and fingerprints are circumstantial evidence.
If you're standing outside a house, hear a scream and then the thud of a body and watch a man, covered in blood, run off with a smoking shotgun... it's circumstantial!
And, really, as we learned from Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, it's not like eyewitness testimony is reliable.
This is the thing that really makes UN Gnomes cry. Legal proposals that are utter junk.