Witness Immunity

Witness Immunity


Immunity is an exemption from a legal requirement, prosecution, or penalty granted by government authorities or statute. Witness immunity is immunity granted from prosecution to someone in exchange for information or testimony in a criminal trial.


In my opinion there should be no witness immunity whatsoever. Basically the purpose of punishment for criminal deeds is to stop/limit criminal deeds not to punish criminals. If there is no criminal deed there would be no punishment. If you give immunity to witness basically you are encouraging people to do criminal deeds. Following are the reasons why; 


1) Only criminals who are bad / corrupt would take witness immunity and give witness against their partner in crime.

2) Taking witness immunity is not an option for criminals with moral values. Bad / corrupt criminals would think that they can do criminal deeds and when they are caught they might get witness immunity.

3) If there is no witness immunity a person would think twice before doing criminal deeds. So criminal deeds would be reduced and so the criminals.

4) It looks like the society is benefiting from witness Immunity since the witness is giving witness/evidence against criminals but we are getting criminals caught but the crime would increase due to witness immunity.

5) It is immoral that you give exemption from punishment to a criminal.

6) Immunity is granted by prosecution, and you cannot be 100% sure that the prosecution is not corrupt.


 


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