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

To: Bill who wrote (39)	1/13/2003 3:46:24 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

Perhaps you are too quick to present myth 3 as a myth. Or, if it is a myth, that it is relevant in the first place. We know that innocent people are found guilty and sentenced to death. Perhaps a good study would be to see how many death row inmates have been found "innocent" (as opposed to the term "not guilty"), in the past 20 year as compared to the previous 30 years. If you find a statistical anomaly there, you can probably assume that there were innocent people put to death.

To: Bill who wrote (39)	1/13/2003 3:51:07 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

You've bought into myth 3 too easily. In your opinion, that is, right? Well that's ironic, as I think you've dismissed the possibilities too readily. Especially given that you still haven't - and likely won't, if my experience is any gauge - provided any credible documentation supporting your claim that: In the last 50 years, there has not been a single case where an executed person was later proved innocent. (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=18438815) Or are you a proponent of the argument that if a few people - let's call it 'x' from as little as 1 through some number n - are executed and turn out to be innocent, well, it's an unfortunate but suitable price to pay for society to reap whatever dubious benefits of capital punishment are cited? LPS5