Were all our political participants, including the judiciary, moral and honest you would still have the problem presented by our judicial system.
Would you not allow a defense for this scum? (Personally, in a case like this I would not! I don’t see that it is necessary or has any chance of success.) If not, who would determine the punishment and what would it be? That is where age and mental capacity enter the picture. This requires a value judgement by someone. Whom?
If we had our way and no defense was required where would the line be drawn on other cases? How vicious would the crime have to be? Would a confession be required and if so how could it be obtained? It becomes a slippery slope filled with subjective judgments.
Either way the Constitution would have to be changed. Could it be?
I understand your chagrin with some peoples seeming lack of morality but that is part of living in a free society. As you say a whore is a whore no matter where she resides but whose morals is she violating and who is harmed as a result? What should be her punishment?
My opinion of that is probably not as you think but I have gone too long on this already.
“Would you not allow a defense for this scum?”
I never raised this issue...I simply made the observation that there are ways to game the system by dedicated scumbags who do it without conscience and seem to feel good about it...the way a late term abortionist feels when he’s killed another inconvenient baby, I suppose...job well done!...why are arguing a point I could care less about? As far as I am concerned, what people do in their employment is up to them...but, to answer your question again...if no one was willing to free a killer on a technicality, or by tugging at heart strings, would they go free?
If juries stopped getting John Edwards in front of them “channeling” dead children, would they become insensitive? Probably not, but they might stop bankrupting people, or entire towns with insane rewards while the scumbag attorneys walk away with MILLIONS of dollars.
I think only the law (and what is left of my poor America) would benefit if lawyers said “no, this I will not do. My morals do not allow it”