[dante]

The FBI has been reviewing thousands of criminal convictions in order to determine whether they may have been secured using faulty science. Now, 27 death penalty convictions are reportedly being questioned.

http://gawker.com/the-fbi-has-found-scientific-errors-in-27-death-penalty-824877045

The first two comments are gold:

Perhaps if we started referring to death sentences as 'later-term abortions,' something could be done to abolish the death penalty.

and

If you don't trust your government to regulate health care, you shouldn't trust it to kill people. Period.

 

[$tinkle]

what is faulty science today was back then sound, and part of due process

should we now re-litigate capital cases for those who were heavier than a duck? gravity hasn't changed

 

[stoney]

what is faulty science today was back then sound, and part of due process

should we now re-litigate capital cases for those who were heavier than a duck? gravity hasn't changed

It is better to set a guilty man free, than to execute an innocent man.

 

[$tinkle]

It is better to set a guilty man free, than to execute an innocent man.

maybe in *your* liberal utopia

 

[dante]

It is better to keep someone in jail so that they have a chance to be exonerated / released later, than to execute an innocent man.

I'm not for releasing guilty people just because others *might* be innocent, I'm for not executing them. If there's been a mistake and an innocent person is imprisoned, you can always release him afterwards. If there's been a mistake and someone is *executed*, there's really not a whole lot you can do....

 

[$tinkle]

If there's been a mistake and someone is *executed*, there's really not a whole lot you can do....

http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/

 

[jonKranked]

jesus doesn't believe in science

 

[syadasti]

I'm not for releasing guilty people just because others *might* be innocent, I'm for not executing them. If there's been a mistake and an innocent person is imprisoned, you can always release him afterwards. If there's been a mistake and someone is *executed*, there's really not a whole lot you can do....

On that topic, that Texas judge should go to jail. There is no good reason to exempt judges who commit criminal acts from paying for their crimes.

 

[stevew]

If there's been a mistake and an innocent person is imprisoned, you can always release him afterwards.

you had better see to it that he has what amounts to a well paying union no show job for the rest of his life also...

 

[jimmydean]

you had better see to it that he has what amounts to a well paying union no show job for the rest of his life also...

$6M for 25 years aint a bad payout.

 

[stevew]

$6M for 25 years aint a bad payout.

fvck that.

 

[stevew]

you had better see to it that he has what amounts to a well paying union no show job for the rest of his life also...

i take this back.....a million a year for each year.

 

[jimmydean]

i take this back.....a million a year for each year.

Just don't owe the ex anything.

Mr. Phillips spent 24 years in prison before DNA tests connected another man to the rapes and prompted the courts to declare Mr. Phillips innocent. In 2009, the state awarded him lump sum payments totaling more than $2 million, and a monthly annuity of more than $11,000. In total, his compensation package for time spent in prison is worth nearly $6 million, not including health care and education benefits he is also eligible to receive.

His ex-wife, now Traci Tucker, is arguing that she is entitled to a portion of that money. The two are locked in a legal battle that her lawyers say is the first of its kind in the nation. Ms. Tucker sued Mr. Phillips, and last year a Dallas County state district judge awarded her about $150,000.

 

[stevew]

Just don't owe the ex anything.

uhh...did she suck one prison dick....no.

take it in the ass from another prisoner...no.

does not get a cut