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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (1059)	5/14/2001 6:23:54 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 14610

Jeff, Agreed, our laws which require government agencies to follow a certain protocol when depriving its citizens of life or liberty (prison or execution) are there to protect people who are innocent of the crimes for which they are accused. Those laws are there to protect you and I and are there specifically as a watchdog to government agencies becoming abusive of their power. It doesn't matter how inconsequential the evidence is, or how much compelling evindence existed from other sources, the prosecution team/FBI should not have jeopardized the case by being sloppy.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (1059)	5/14/2001 8:19:41 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Rethinking the position on the death penalty is exactly what Illinois is doing. Due to similar sloppiness, several people were on death row for crimes they didn't commit. Only the enterprising work of a Northwestern professor and his students proved the innocence of one of these individuals, and when another case just like it surfaced, the governor decided that the system wasn't working, and we weren't going to execute people when we couldn't be sure we had the right ones. None of this applies to McVeigh. That was one case where there was no need to hide anything.