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

To: LPS5 who wrote (78)	1/13/2003 5:22:04 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 828

I didn't duck anything, moron. I made a statement, and in an attempt to disprove MY statement, you claim I'm not proving YOUR statement. Here's my statement (which you amusingly think is 'grandiose'). "In the last 50 years, there has not been a single case where an executed person was later proved innocent." If you disagree with this statement, show me a case. A single case.

To: LPS5 who wrote (78)	1/13/2003 5:24:55 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

So the requirement for a DP is ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY? Then, yeah, it has to go, because that is never achievable. Not in the real world. Physics, as good as it is, cannot achieve that. There are improvements possible in current evidentiary requirements. If DNA evidence is available, it has to be tested. Eyewiteness testimony, known to be unreliable, has to be corroborated. Fingerprint analysis is to sloppy. Standards have to be developed and it must be proven thgat they were applied. But if "beyond a reasonable doubt" is converted to "absolutely certain", then we can just shut down our police forces and courts. And take the consequences.