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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: jlallen who wrote (20672)	6/12/2000 3:55:00 PM
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Here's a disturbing story. 70% of all death penalty trials are so flawed they must have new trials. This could mean 1. Lawyers and judges are particularly sloppy in life and death cases. 2. 70% of ALL criminal trials are severely flawed, meaning our criminal justice system is totally broken. 3. The death penalty is being deliberately sabotaged. 4 ? Other ideas? Retrials ordered in 68% of death penalties Study fuels debate over flaws in legal system FRANK DAVIES WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON Since the resumption of capital punishment in the 1970s, two-thirds of all U.S. trials that ended in death sentences were riddled with such serious mistakes that new trials were ordered, Columbia University Law School researchers found in a massive study released today. The death penalty was imposed in 5,760 cases from 1973 through 1995. The study examined the 4,578 cases among them that were resolved in that period; the remainder were still on appeal when the study ended. State or federal courts ordered retrials in 68 percent of the 4,578 cases studied. In the cases that were retried, 82 percent of the defendants received lesser sentences and 7 percent were found not guilty. pioneerplanet.com

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