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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (12)	1/13/2003 1:23:35 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to 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.

To: Bill who wrote (12)	1/13/2003 5:33:52 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

<<Law enforcement and prosecutorial tactics have no bearing on whether the accused committed the killings. My point was that labeling a bunch of them "wrongly convicted" doesn't mean they are innocent. Yet, that's the way the leftist media is playing it. >> There had been several innocent men on death row. When you have a year where you execute 12 and release 13 because of overwhelming evidence they're innocent, you have a problem. In one case a group of high school kids reviewed the case and got the guy off. Several of the Cook County confessions came from a combination of manufactured evidence plus beatings that included suffocating the accused until he passes out and wake him up with an electric shock to the groin. OTOH take the case of the dude who car jacked a lady in Chicago, got her $200 ATM money, held her hostage for 150 miles to McLean, Illinois. He pulls in for gas, someone notices the gun and called the police. He sees the squad car and with 25 people watching kills the woman and takes off running. They watch him right up to the arrest and there's no mix-up as he's the only black for miles. Oops, the lefties are right. It's whitey screwing the poor black guy.