I first want to say that this is not directed at anyone specifically, I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion and is entitled to express it.
It makes me extremely sad that in this day and age people value our constitutional system so little that they would be willing to water board, drug, or lord knows what else a person simply because they are an accused killer. What next ban defendants from presenting evidence on their own behalf? Maybe we should not allow them to have attorneys or maybe even try them in secret courts where there are no rules of evidence, just like terrorists?
Lets consider the rights we have under our constitution. We have the right to be secure in our homes and be protected from unreasonable and warrantless searches of them, with some narrow exceptions. We have the right to not incriminate ourselves. We have the right to counsel, to be charged without delay of the crimes we are accused of, to confront our accusers and present evidence in our own defense. We have the right to a speedy and public trial and the right not to be punished in cruel ways. These rights our, our only protections against police/state misconduct, without them we may as well live in the Stalinist Soviet Union or one of those nice totalitarian Muslim states in the middle east we are so fond of demonizing these days. If you were arrested tomorrow and accused of a crime, which of those rights would you give up?
Maybe you answered that you would give up any of those rights, because if you were innocent it would not matter? My guess is that back in 1989 Jeff Deskovic thought the same. When his high school classmate was found raped and murdered that November he was only 16. Naturally, he was a good suspect, his emotions seemed inappropriate, LE just thought he was shady, after all he was late to school the day of the murder and he lied about what he had been doing. To clear his name he volunteered to take a polygraph. When he went to take the polygraph they gave him coffee all day but no food, was denied access to a restroom, and in between polygraph sessions he was interrogated by LE. They denied him access to a lawyer and grilled him for 6 hours. Eventually he failed the polygraph and confessed in order to use the restroom. The trial was a quick one; he had confessed, so no need to look at all the evidence? He was convicted of 1st degree murder and rape and told that at 16 he would never leave prison. In 2006 biological evidence proved he was not the rapist and not the killer, moreover it proved who the killer was. On September 20, 2006, Jeff Deskovic was released from prison when his conviction was overturned. Following an apology from the assistant district attorney, the court dismissed Deskovic's indictment on the grounds of actual innocence on November 2, 2006, but he will never get those 15.5 years of his life back and he will never be the same.
I am not defending Caseys behavior in any way or suggesting that she could be innocent. I am just saying our constitution protects us all, there are compelling reasons it is the way it is and the trend we have going in our society to completely disregard it is scary. It is a fine line we walk when we disregard these things.