The justice system in the U.S. is not a system of justice.
It is a system of biased, discriminating, and prejudice people of power. It is
in our ideology that we believe the justice system is fair. If someone commits
a crime, they’re arrested, sentenced, and put in jail. This is justice, and
this is what we are taught at a very young age about the system. The police are
supposed to protect and serve the people. However, what we are seeing today is not
justice. We are seeing more and more police shoot to kill. It is not justice, its
murder and our system is flawed because it keeps allowing these senseless acts.
Judges are tainted and like the president do exactly what they want. Especially
if they’re given hush money to look the other way, overrule a point, or ignore
evidence brought to their attention. We should feel comfortable and proud of
our justice system but instead, we are very fearful and skeptical. Those
feelings come from evidence of brutality in our neighborhoods, and shadiness in
the courtroom.
We
live in the United States and are settling for a system full of corrupt,
heartless, criminals in black robes, with badges, and fancy lawyers. There are
also the rich who can afford to pay off the judge or silence the prosecuting
attorney. This will allow their murderous children freedom from prison. But the
young boy that’s caught with marijuana in his pocket is sentenced to 10 years
in prison. The system is flawed when the judge and prosecuting attorneys in
many cases are corrupt. There have been numerous cases where the prosecuting
attorney withheld evidence that could exonerate a person. In the case of Julie
Rea Harper, The End
on October 13, 1997, Julie’s 10-year old son was stabbed to death while sleeping
in their home in Lawrenceville, IL. In 2002, Julie Rea Harper was convicted of
capital murder and sentenced to 65 years in prison. After a serial killer who
murdered several children, confessed to Harper's son's murder and after spending
nine years in prison she was exonerated. This is also after the prosecuting
attorney withheld exculpatory evidence and relied on false testimony from several
deputies during the trial. I couldn’t imagine the pain Jane Rea Harper endured
while sitting in prison looking at the walls, with images of terror zooming in
and out of the cracks. She not only was grieving her son she was also grieving
her innocence and freedom.
In the 1991 case of Todd Willingham, he was sentenced to the death penalty for the
fire and death of his three young children. However, new evidence from a fire
science expert Dr. Craig Beyer, hired by the Texas Forensic Science Commission
proved the fire as an accident. Beyer stated that Willingham did not set the
fire and ruled it an accident. However, former
Governor Rick Perry was running for re-election and did not want to lose votes.
Perry refused to delay Todd Willingham’s execution and Willingham was put to
death by lethal injection on February 17, 2004. Perry basically states that Willingham
was a bad person and deserved to die. Perry along with the townspeople and local fire
investigators overlooked the law and evidence and executed a man based on their
opinion of him and his reputation. He did deserve to be punished for being a
wife-beater but he did not deserve to be put to death for a fire and the death
of his young children. Something he protested from the very beginning and went
to his grave with.
It
is cases like these, and many more even active cases today see List
of Wrongful Convictions in the United States that individuals are convicted
of heinous crimes and sentenced to many years in prison or sentenced to the
death penalty. But later could be exonerated due to new DNA evidence. But the
system refuses to review the case, the judge looks the other way or the stay of
execution is allowed to expire. These individuals end up spending many years of
their lives, away from their families in prison. Time that they can never get
back. However the prosecutors and judges and governor that obviously tampered
or withheld evidence, only get a few days in jail, no jail time, or simply just
fine. Corrupt police, judges, lawyers, politicians all of them need to be
found guilty in the multiple cases out there where lives are destroyed because
of fallacies in the judicial system. The disparities caused by these executives
could be eliminated & avoided if they just do their job, and be ingenuous
to those that are before them. But they are no longer credible and do not
deserve to hold their position, wear the robe, badge, or title any longer. They
are criminals and deserve to be treated as such. They deserve and need to be
fired, sentenced to prison for flawing
the justice system.
Citations:
Holland, Robert. Is
the American Criminal Justice System Flawed 24 October 2018
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