re: Would you be in favor of Soviet style justice if there is ZERO doubt of guilt?

Desperate times call for desperate measures... I believe the tiny percentage of innocent people executed in this style of system would be well worth it for overall society because it would actually save way more innocent lives in the long run.

I will go one step further and say we should bring back public executions via town hangings and guillotines for violent murderers, pedophiles, and rapists who without question performed their crime with absolute intent to do so. Questionable self defense, drunk drivers, or sexual acts that have reasonable cause to believe the victim didn't play a part in the crime to possibly put themselves in harms way would not apply. I'm talking about criminals who performed their crimes with the preconceived intent for a desired outcome, which includes car jackers or robbers who use a deadly weapon or force to perform their crime, even though they didn't have intent to actually use it. No innocent person minding their own business deserves to have deadly weapon pulled on them, period end of story.

Execution's should be a few days after crime at most, not 20 years of wasting millions of tax payer dollars housing and feeding these animals. Do this and crime will go down to likes of which no one would believe was possible.