DD's plan -- Minister of Magic

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No: HPFGUIDX 189150



> >
> > Pippin:
> > Would it help you to resist if you remembered that one of the people  
> >  killed under that policy would have been Sirius Black?
> >
> > If the goal is to prevent innocent people from being murdered, it   
> > does not seem that JKR thinks state-sponsored executions are such a   
> > good idea.

Eric: 
> Before I did _anything,_ I'd want to make sure that the people in  
> question were guilty.  Why they didn't even try to question Black  
> (make sure he wasn't under the Imperius or otherwise magically  
> controlled, wait till all possible antidotes were out of his system  
> and then dose him with Veritaserum and question him, get a Penseive)  
> is utterly beyond me.
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Alla:

Problem is though that everybody including Dumbledore was absolutely, positively sure that he was guilty as hell, no? I would totally support your argument if we could be absolutely sure that they are guilty. I just do not think that any system of justice including WW one allows for somebody to be absolutely sure.

If one is willing to allow for mistake of executing innocent people to be made, then sure, but I do not think it should be that way.

By the way, I am not even making an argument against the death penalty in the books and/or in RL, even though I am against it for this very reason, I was under impression that you were suggesting to execute them as the preventive measure, look what we will do to you, etc. If WW court decided that they deserved execution from the beginning that would be less problematic to me (even though there is still a possibility of mistake), but not when they were sentenced to prison and now, oops, we decide to kill you because we can.

JMO,

Alla