Just because you stop torturing someone doesn’t mean you didn’t do it in the first place. Saying ‘oops sorry for torturing you for the crimes you committed, we’re different now and those aren’t crimes anymore’ isn’t recompense nor does it mean you reverse the situation. It means you did something irreversible and now you feel guilty. There is no ability to make one whole again.
And again, Murder, corruption, and treason are the three crime categories that get the death penalty in China; that has to be supported by evidence that passes both judicial and jury scrutiny; with the defendant receiving the benefit of the doubt with any unclear evidence or allegations.
This mirrors the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ standard of English law based countries; but more than that they also get appeals.
They still had it, and it’s the same crimes. Also life in prison is objectively more cruel.
Prison is objectively more reversible too.
Not really, no. Time flows in one direction.
Just because you stop torturing someone doesn’t mean you didn’t do it in the first place. Saying ‘oops sorry for torturing you for the crimes you committed, we’re different now and those aren’t crimes anymore’ isn’t recompense nor does it mean you reverse the situation. It means you did something irreversible and now you feel guilty. There is no ability to make one whole again.
And again, Murder, corruption, and treason are the three crime categories that get the death penalty in China; that has to be supported by evidence that passes both judicial and jury scrutiny; with the defendant receiving the benefit of the doubt with any unclear evidence or allegations.
This mirrors the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ standard of English law based countries; but more than that they also get appeals.