[WikiEN-l] American concepts of justice (was: Rules vs. Anarchy)

[Charles Matthews]

Ed Poor wrote

>I think it's important for the Wikipedia articles to reflect that fact
that many Americans take just the attitude you described above:

  that America "does something better than most of the world does" by
  "having an independent judiciary that is largely in the hands of
people
  who understand the concept of due process of law and even approve of
it"

I see that [[capital punishment in the United States]] quotes a figure of
67% of capital convictions eventually overturned, ''mainly on procedural
grounds''.  One can read this either way, of course.  Does look like a glass
more than half empty to me, though.

Charles