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Originally Posted by Driller
...persons who have been "proved" to be innocent and served jail should get full compensation! can we imagine the devastation? they are also victims
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What is full compensation though?
If someone is banged up for ten years, and then they are found to have been innocent, if the capped rate of compensation is half a million pounds that equates to £50,000 for every year they were incarcerated.
Is that a fair amount? It's probably near to what we are told is the national average annual salary. What amount would make you happy if it was you?
This is why I am against the death penalty. On this forum I was shot down by people saying miscarriages happen so infrequently, one or two innocent deaths don't really matter all that much.
Whatever monetary value you put on someone being wrongly locked up, at least they can be somehow compensated, not so if they are six feet under.
If more money could be found from this innitiative for the victims of crime, so much the better.