You must prosecute the offender. Their bad health holds no weight. All must be held to account for their actions. It goes without saying that the wrongfully convicted individual should be exonerated and set free without delay.
1 month ago | 22
First course of action would be to try and confirm the confession as truthful, not all confessions are.
1 month ago | 19
Or option D: prosecute the actual murderer to clear the innocent party and then PAY the wrongly convicted individual. Money won’t give them that 15 years back, but it’ll help them get on their feet so they can build a life and get any kind of professional psychological help they may need.
1 month ago | 7
So the incarcerated person cakes his friend up to confess on his death bed so he could go free. I think yad want to do a LITTLE investigating to make sure.
1 month ago | 9
John Grisham wrote a book about this called The Confession. It's really good.
1 month ago | 1
Justice must be served. The confessor should be charged and jailed as any other person would, and the falsely convicted victim must be set free AND compensated(as best as possible, 15 years of life isn't something you can buy back) for the mistakes made by the justice system.
1 month ago | 10
Does it matter if the truly guilty person dies peacefully in a hospital bed or a prison hospital bed? (In all likelihood-the guilty one will STILL die in a regular hospital-they can’t keep them in gen-pop if they’re in need of such a high level of medical care. They’d be under lockdown at the hospital w/ a 24/7 guard.) I say…prosecute them…fix the record…allow them to stay in hospice/hospital care, with 2 conditions: a). release the wrongly convicted person immediately (along w/ a full exoneration) & b). IF, for some reason, the guilty/sick person makes a miraculous recovery-they WILL be sent to prison to serve out the sentence they should have had all along. No matter what, innocent people should always go free & wrongs must be set right.
1 month ago (edited) | 11
Free the innocent man immediately, pay him a few millions, prosecute the offender and lastly give all the offenders property away to the innocent man.
1 month ago | 1
No court will actually prosecute someone who's close to death, but they may take a sworn statement witnessed by an independent professional (eg lawyer) and any evidence or pertinent information that only the perpetrator would know as evidence to exonerate the innocent party, at minimum removing their conviction from their records and ideally getting them compensation for the time they were illegally deprived of their liberties. Ensuring wrongful convictions are overturned are just as if not more important than convicting people in the first place, even if they've been released. Rectifying these legal mistakes is crucial for the integrity of the justice system, we can't tolerate injustices of any kind if we want people to have faith in the legal system.
1 month ago | 2
Also pay the wrongful arrestee for the length and suffering, PAY UP STATE AND CITY !
1 month ago | 0
I wouldn’t worry too much about the dying person being put through any unnecessary trauma. I think it is a small bit of justice for the person who lost 15 years of their life.
1 month ago | 0
You still have to do due process, a confession doesn't automatically mean the truth is been told, for all you know he could be good freinds with the real killer in jail and knowing of his imminent death he tries to get him off the conviction.
1 month ago | 2
People need to read the classic novels they just may learn something hint The Tale of Two Cities The quote "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done" comes from the character Sydney Carton.
1 month ago | 0
“Prosecuting the dying person won’t bring them to justice” ???? Why not?!
1 month ago | 0
Why are 1 and 2 different choices? If you're prosecuting the new suspect, that process exonerates the old one. The legal process by which you would exonerate the old person would automatically implicate the new one. That's just a poorly worded false dichotomy.
1 month ago | 0
Free the innocent person and jail the guilty one. Just because you’re terminal doesn’t mean you shouldn’t serve the time you deserve. There’s terminal people in prison so….yeah.
1 month ago | 1
Prosecutor can spend their final moments in jail idc. And then put the wrongly convicted person on their will or something
1 month ago (edited) | 0
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A terminally ill person confesses to a murder from 20 years ago. The wrong person was convicted and has served 15 years in prison. But prosecuting the dying person won't bring them to justice. What should happen?
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