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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty!
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To: Bill who wrote (12)1/13/2003 1:23:35 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (5) of 828
 
there have been several cases where people convicted of murder and put on death row were later found to not only be "not guilty" but also "innocent" through DNA tests.

I am *not* opposed to the death penalty. However, I am opposed to the idea of not making every effort to make absolutely certain that an innocent man or woman is never put to death. We do have the ability to do this in many cases where DNA evidence exists. And yet many states still resist performing these tests as a routine part of the appeals process.

So, I disagree with your "myth #3", but it is something that I see as workable if states return to the idea that it is better to let a guilty man go free than to imprison an innocent man. That rule is exponentially more important when you are talking about the death penalty.
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