[Silver]

I've said before that I'm not against the death penalty for philosophical reasons, but that I don't want it on the books because of the risk of false positives, and here is another great illustration of why that is:

http://reason.com/news/show/132574.html

Here is some great reasoning from the a court:

In rejecting an appeal by convicted murderer and death row inmate Eddie Lee Howard, the court wrote that “Just because Dr. West has been wrong a lot, does not mean, without something more, that he was wrong here.”

Wonderful. In other words, "Just because Dr. West will tell the jury whatever the prosecutor wants to hear in exchange for a check, doesn't mean that he was wrong in this case."

 

[ohio]

Ditto.

If DNA matches were necessary rather than sufficient (among a hundred other pieces of sufficient "evidence," like being black or retarded) for the death penalty (vs. life, not vs. conviction), I'd start to feel a whole lot better.

 

[jimmydean]

False or otherwise, one less person is still one less person. If you are unable to prove your own innocence, then maybe there are other forces at work that want you dead. That's all I'm saying.

 

[ohio]

False or otherwise, one less person is still one less person. If you are unable to prove your own innocence, then maybe there are other forces at work that want you dead. That's all I'm saying.

wat.

1234

 

[jimmydean]

wat.

1234

In that story, it didn't say why Ray Krone was a suspect other than having a messed up grill. Did he have priors? He wasn't killed because they were able to prove he was innocent, so no blood, no foul, right?

 

[kidwoo]

False or otherwise, one less person is still one less person. If you are unable to prove your own innocence, then maybe there are other forces at work that want you dead. That's all I'm saying.

I'm totally down with individual rapture.

 

[sanjuro]

False or otherwise, one less person is still one less person. If you are unable to prove your own innocence, then maybe there are other forces at work that want you dead. That's all I'm saying.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/

Seventeen people had been sentenced to death before DNA proved their innocence and led to their release.

You should look at some of the profiles, at least the murder convictions which have been overturned.

 

[jimmydean]

http://www.innocenceproject.org/



You should look at some of the profiles, at least the murder convictions which have been overturned.

And my next question would be:

Who's god did they piss off? If my time is up, it's up. Whether I am hit by a bus or offed via lethal injection for a crime I didn't commit, the end result is the same.

 

[ohio]

no really, I don't even know where to begin.

it's like where the westboro baptist church, nihilism, and fascism meet for drinks, some underage rape, and maybe a game of eugenics in the back parlor. it makes my brain hurt. ouch.