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To: Bill who wrote (21655)	6/27/2000 10:19:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I have serious problems with the death penalty but fear of frying an innocent person isn't one of them: Ann Coulter - By the time they were finished with the Bedau-Radelet Study, Markman and Cassell were able to state without contradiction: There is no documented case of a factually innocent person being executed for at least the past 50 years. Nor is there likely to be. Probably 99.9 percent of defendants convicted of murder are guilty. Less than 1 percent of all convicted murderers will receive the death penalty. We could triple the number of murderers sentenced to death without ever executing an innocent man. jewishworldreview.com

To: Bill who wrote (21655)	6/27/2000 1:48:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

If a system were established that guaranteed 100% accuracy, then execution becomes a valid option. My concern is not for the rights of the guilty, they have none, it is for the rights of the innocent who are trapped in a terribly flawed system. Personally, I would not employ the electric chair, guillotine, noose, dunking, stoning or firing squad -- all of those smack of cruel and unusual punishment. Lethal injection seems to be the best alternative at this point in time. Perhaps in the future we will be able to do a brain wipe and give them a new identity and personality. And, why just 'him'? -- there are women too.