Is it better to let a murderer walk free, or keep an innocent man in jail?

[TheCloak]

Both of these happen every day, which would be better, though?

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[The DooD]

Well I think keeping an innocent man in jail is worse. But it's a toughy.

A murderer could be anything from a one off murder of passion, to a psychopathic serial killer. But keeping an innocent man in jail is practically ruining the rest of his life.

[AceOfDivine]

Keep a murderer in jail and free the innocent one? Why do we have to pick?

[TheCloak]

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;33154436]Keep a murderer in jail and free the innocent one? Why do we have to pick?[/QUOTE]

because that's the debate

[VistaPOWA]

I'd rather let a murderer free (there is a chance he won't murder anyone else) than to imprison an innocent for life.

[Sickle]

[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;33154507]I'd rather let a murderer free (there is a chance he won't murder anyone else) than to imprison an innocent for life.[/QUOTE]

I agree.

[NightmareXx]

It's better to let 10 guilty men go free than put one innocent man in jail

[Nitronik]

When an innocent man is in jail you will ruin his life as if he was a murderer.

I'd let a murderer free if it's not a psycho, but one should never keep an innocent in jail

[carcarcargo]

Depends on the murderer. If the murderer killed again when let free I'd say that letting the murder go free was worse.

[Sobotnik]

It depends.

If the murderer kills more than one person, then the number of lives ruined/lost will be greater than keeping a man in jail.

If less, then let the man go free.

[JohnnyMo]

I'd much rather the murderer go free. Assuming we're not saying he's free to go run around killing some more.

[Hyzo]

In either case you're letting a murderer go free according to the title, so it's not really much of a debate.

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Unless we're debating whether or not to jail innocent people.

[rosthouse]

"In dubio pro reo" (when in doubt, for the accused), meaning if you can't prove that he is a murderer, let him go.

I say it's much worse to prison an innocent man.