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To: Solon who wrote (3547)3/19/2002 8:21:35 PM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (11) of 21057
 
BTW, the only case of an innocent man executed that I know of, worldwide, was the John Christie case in England, perhaps 50 years ago. A man named Timothy Evans (going on memory here) was convicted and hanged for murders in a house he was rooming in. The owner, Christie, later was clearly shown to have been the guilty one. The Christie case was the centerpiece of the move to abolish the death penalty. There was a book and a movie on the case.

I have yet to come across a comparable case in the U.S., say in the last half-century. That is not to say that there may not have been one, which I don't know about, or maybe no one knows about. Any system run by mere mortals will make mistakes. That is price we pay for our frailties, just as in the case of troops killed by friendly fire.

My original point was that the opponents of the D.P. have not presented convincing cases.
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