Amanda Knox and American Justice (La Repubblica, Italy)
Does the case of Amanda Knox, acquitted yesterday in connection with the rape and murder of her British roommate, confirm once again the barbarity and injustice of the American death penalty? Asserting that in the U.S., people are put to death on the basis of evidence at least as flimsy as that against Knox, La Repubblica columnist Vittorio Zucconi writes that the Knox case is yet one more reason for the U.S. to end state-sanctioned punishment of death.
For La Repubblica, Vittorio Zucconi writes in part:
It is both delightful and instructive to witness America’s joy and indignation over first the judicial miscarriage and then the acquittal of Amanda Knox. It’s too bad that in America, such indignation 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.
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4 Responses to “Amanda Knox and American Justice (La Repubblica, Italy)”
While US CSI officers are rarely as good at their job or have nearly the same access to technology that we see on tv, they are above and beyond the idiots in Italy. The police screwed that case up…this is a bad argument with the right intentions.
lol
I don’t think we want to be like Italy in anything regarding government.
No, the death penalty is not barbarous, it’s justice. If there is no death penalty for the most horrendous crimes, there is no justice for the victims or our people as a whole.
We should concentrate on mistakes and corruption, not arbitrarily eliminate the death penalty.
Charles Manson was not executed, but should have been executed if anybody ever deserved to be executed, but was spared by the banning of the death penalty in California, which was soon reinstated after the Manson trial. The sick basterd got away with it in my opinion.
Allen, I wonder how you would feel about the death penalty if you were an innocent man sitting on death row.
’cause our system of justice is by no means perfect…and death is absolute.
ShannonLeee-
Well I wouldn’t feel very good. I suspect nobody else would either.
That still does not change my opinion. I have already considered the possibility.