I've wondered about that too. Often I think there's a vicious 'well they deserve it' mentality but people sometimes also realise that the justice system isn't perfect & that you don't want to execute innocent people, which could easily have happened in cases like the Birmingham Six.
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Date: 2010-01-08 12:43 am (UTC)