The current justice system takes innocent lives on a regular basis.  And please don't say the lives lost aren't innocent because they were charged with a crime, committed a crime and/or were addicts.  Most people have committed some type of crime in their lives, from taking a pen or other supplies to the office, to speeding, driving with a little more alcohol than they should under the belt, getting high, whatever.  The only difference is they didn't get caught.  What about the death penalty? How many innocent people have been murdered by the government? How many people entered the system because of draconian sentencing laws and a populace bent on revenge and punishment? How many lives have been ruined by a criminal record; lives interrupted and lives lost through despair that they will never stop paying for a crime they committed decades ago, that society won't let them forget and for which they continue to be punished, even after serving all their time?