Our "Justice" System

I really wish our country would come up with a better justice system!!

Why does it take 3+ years to go to trial just to wait threw appeals after appeals before they exhaust all of their appeals for justice to finally be served??

Take Casey Anthony for example...she murdered her baby girl in 2008 & here it is 2011 and they are just starting her trial. When she is convicted and sentenced it will be tied up in court over appeals for years!

Why did Elizabeth Smart have to wait soooo many years to finally have justice and a peace of mind for what happened to her?

Why are the West Memphis three still in prison when there is DNA proving they never murdered those three young boys??Two are serving a life sentence and one is on death row and has been for 19 years. The surpreme court ordered a new court date to see if the new evidence and jury misconduct could prove these men are actually innocent....almost a year ago.

How much longer are we going to pretend this system is working?

Why are child molesters and abusers only serving HALF their sentences just to be sent back out into the world to prey on more children?
Over 60% of sexual abuse crimes happen with a abuser who already has a record. Most abusers start small and get big and their crimes get worse.
It may start out as touching but by the end that isn't enough, then it becomes rape, then rape and murder.

How much longer are we going to pretend this is working!!

Why are men/women serving longer sentences for drugs then abusing or taking lives? You kill someone you're out in 5 years, but get caught with drugs and you're in for 15 years?? Doesn't seem so right.

Of course every case is different and this doesn't go for every case but it seems to be a growing trend.

Why do we have men/women on death row who are innocent? Why are the guilty ones free?

There is a new law that has been passed that when a person is sent to prison their DNA is immediantly put into a system so if they commit more crimes they'll know who did it....why not do this at birth??

When a child is born they take blood for testing anyways, why not take their DNA and put it on file from day one? I promise the crime rate would go from high to almost non existent.

When the FBI takes evidence from crimes scenes they run it through a system to hopefully find a match, either from previous offenders, DMV records etc.

If we took DNA from day one they could just run it through the system and BAM there would be a match!!

Sometimes that is not enough, why do we have to wait until there's been a crime to do something?? Why can't we start preventing them?

Yes, I realize it would cost a lot of money, a lot of workers and time to put everyone's DNA on file but it would be so worth it.

Victims shouldn't have to wait years to finally have justice, nor should prisoners wait in prison for their day in court. They need to make these things happen faster. I understand it takes time to build a case, gather evidence & all the facts but so many cases just make a mockery of the justice system, it's a joke.

With every year our country is coming up with more and more ways to solve crimes and find out who committed them, why shouldn't the justice system evolve as well?

Take Scott Person for example he was proven beyond a shadow of doubt with DNA evidence etc of killing Lacey Peterson and their unborn son Conner & has been sitting on death row for 5+ years....why have a freaking death row if they aren't going to do it??
Why should Laceys parents wait for her justice this whole time?

I'm an eye for an eye. I know many people feel it's wrong but you take a life without it being self defense you should not be aloud to live.

Our country had gone lazy and soft.

Take Lori Hacking for example, he shot her point blank in the head while she was pregnant, coped a plea and is serving a life sentence......
.....why should we give him a plea when he wouldn't listen to the plea of his scared dying wife? It's disgusting and wrong!!!


Take the beautiful jonbenet ramsey, murdered violently at age six in 1996!!! Her case pisses me off so much!! So much evidence and yet NOTHING!! That little girl deserves to rest in peace!!

I understand what I just said has a lot of holes but the point is our justice system isn't working. Children are still being molested, kidnapped, raped & murdered. Women are still being abused, raped & murdered & men are still being murdered.
When are we going to stop turning our heads, refusing to read the stories, turning the channel and start doing something?

We can all pretend to live in our own little world but it's happening all around us.

Why do we only act AFTER it happens to one of our families?