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

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (19)	1/13/2003 2:58:58 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

Anti-DP advocates co-mingle the cases where additional evidence or trial errors end up releasing people with the notion that we're executing innocent people. This is disingenuous. Myth # 3 is still a myth until an innocent person turns up executed. I agree that DNA and other technically advanced evidentiary methods should be employed before anyone is executed. My understanding is that they currently are, and that's why appeals run 8-14 years.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (19)	1/13/2003 3:12:31 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 828

IF DNA evidence exists that can indicate who the perp was (or wasn't), it should be a legal requirement to test it in any criminal case. Giving somebody life w/o parole and having them spend their entire remaining lives locked up when they can be cleared isn't too swift either.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (19)	1/13/2003 4:24:04 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

when it comes to a persons life, every venue available should be used and I think the laws and courts are set up to give the benefit of the doubt to the guilty rather than the innocent

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (19)	1/15/2003 2:47:25 PM
From: HighTech	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 828

Why is it better to let a guilty man go free than to imprison an innocent man? On what principle or grounds do you believe this to be true? HT

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (19)	1/15/2003 10:59:06 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

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. Yeah whats up with that? And you know whats even wierder, when somebody on death row or some long sentence without parole somehow manages a DNA test, and it comes out negative (thereby proving innocence) some judges and prosecutors refuse to commute the sentence even then. I think there are plenty of cases where innocent people have at least been charged... remember that Cary Stayner case in Modesto where the police originally went after a heroin addict- the guy was screaming for a DNA test as they were dragging him in for questioning... as it turns out while he was in jail another even more heinous crime was committed obviously by the same criminal... oops police have the wrong guy