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To: Bill who wrote (4024)3/21/2002 2:51:21 PM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Some posters here use SI as a bulletin board, posting everything a Google search turns up on a subject like the death penalty. They don't care whether these cases of "innocent people executed" are true or not. They just want to bury the discussion under an avalanche of unsupported claims and bogus statistics. This carpet bombing tactic is the cyberspace equivalent of shouting people down in an intelligent discussion. If you respond to them, you only get more of the same junk in return. It's not worth it.

Sometimes you can spot a familiar case in the pile, such as the Roger Coleman one or the Tafero case. Then you can quickly expose how ridiculous these claims of "proven innocence" are. What you have really proved, though, is what a waste of time effort it would be to pick through the growing junk pile of false and misleading so-called examples.

You are totally correct that (1) there has not been a single credible, documented case of an innocent person being executed in the last half-century, and (2) the only valid examples are those where the system has worked as intended in squeezing out any mistakes in the lower courts.

JC

Edit: Before long, the tally of "innocent people executed" will be well in the thousands!
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