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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (641474)	1/7/2012 8:08:27 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579068

>> No innocent person has ever been executed???? I would be very surprised if innocent persons haven't been executed at some point in the US. However, the numbers are minuscule in any case. The recent case of Casey Anthony illustrates just how difficult it would be to sentence someone to death without extremely compelling evidence. And after that there are years and years of appeals and review. I would say it is highly unlikely a person convicted today could be wrongfully executed in the US. Not so in some other countries (see: Amanda Knox). I am much more concerned about the morally reprehensible and outrageous activity of locking up people for drug crimes -- an event which occurs far more frequently and represents the height of ignorance and incompetence, and lack of basic decency in our leadership -- from the president on down, in both political parties and amongst people who arrogantly and immorally believe a person should be locked up for harming no one but herself. And in the process destroying lives -- often of persons who otherwise would be productive members of society, giving them no option but to continue to be wards of the state into perpetuity. It is too bad if a couple of people get executed erroneously after a fair trial through our criminal justice system. But it is a far greater outrage to lock up millions of people based on immoral statutes being prosecuted by corrupt law enforcement officials, destroying many more lives in the process. Let's fix the morally bankrupt problem of jailing people for drug crimes. It is the far bigger problem.