First, I would extremely upset like anyone else would be or dead. Even true murderers are sons, daughters, moms and dads...that's doesn't mean anything (with all due respect). Short of photographic proof of the person committing the felony that's been dated, signed by the felon and notarized you're assuming our justice system is fair and honest. Innocent until proven guilty is a complete falsification of how our justice system is. If that were the case innocent people would not be charged without concrete proof. All a prosecutor needs to do is plant the idea that an innocent person did something wrong and they're off to jail. Since 1937 until now there have been 140+ death row convictions overturned (rough number). While this supports you stand against a "convict and carry out sentence immediately" stand point it also highlights the inability of our justice system to do it's job to the fullest and not simply pin a conviction on someone because of inside or outside pressures. Our justice system is not in the market to protect our innocents, they're in the market to make convictions stick regardless of whom they pin it on but it seems like they don't get it wrong very often. Thousands of people sit on death row right now...only 43 people were executed in 2012. Of those thousands how many do you believe are innocent? How long are you willing to wait for an overturned conviction? How about doing away with the death penalty since it's such a tax burden and inhumane? I'm probably going to get flamed for this but I'll type it anyway....I will take the unfortunate few who got caught in our fucked up system in return for a society which clearly gets the point that if you fuck up you will pay. I could be right, I could be wrong. I can have my views changed given a civil discussion such as this.