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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (15824)6/6/2001 3:20:44 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
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These are cases where the condemned were able to get their sentences reversed before death. In a supposedly enlightened legal environment, after Miranda, where false confessions are harder to get and more justice is theoretically available.

If you think that back in the 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s no other cases of people wrongly convicted and put to death, I think you're deluded.

A dead person has no incentive to prove his innocence. So there is no impetus to find wrongoing in those cases.

But there is no doubt at all in my mind that innocent people have been put to death. And if you fairly and honestly researched the issue, I am confident you would come to the same conclusion.

Maybe you wouldn't care. Maybe you think it's okay to execute a few innocent people as a price to pay for getting rid of a lot of scum.

But don't claim that everybody ever executed in this country as guilty.
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