To: James R. Barrett who wrote (30614 ) 2/10/1999 6:07:00 PM From: E Read Replies (1) | Respond to
<<<the factremains, no innocent person was executed.>>>the system continues to investigate crimes for which the system has executed someone? That it is usually a matter of sheer luck if some journalism class or private citizens get interested in your case? That is not hard to understand! Can you see that it was only by sheer happenstance, good luck, that those particular 76 people were discovered, by private means, to be innocent before their deaths-- and still say, "The system worked, no innocent person was executed,"? Do you believe that a deity sent that good luck to all the innocents, allowing only the guilty to be overlooked, lost in the system, until their deaths made their cases of no more interest to anyone?are the only ones that will be done after the cases have been closed by deaths. -- E] ... new evidence had come to light later which either established the prisoners' innocence or raised strong doubts about their guilt. In most cases this had led to acquittals, pardons, commutations of sentence or the dismissal of the charges, often years after the original conviction. Twenty-three prisoners, however were executed. Twenty-three prisoners, however were executed. In 32 cases it was found that no crime had been committed, sometimes because the purported murder victim was found alive. In some cases other people had confessed to the crime, alibi evidence was found to be valid, or witnesses had lied.
