RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll)
June 19, 2015 at 4:09 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2015 at 4:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Good thing he got out. I'm reminded of a gentleman from Texas who didn't. Convicted based on "evidence" that amounted to witchcraft and thoroughly exonerated by a more critical examination of that evidence - in a trial with misconduct so egregious the prosecutor himself was implicated, his appeal for a stay was denied and he was put to death.
The state was concerned, for it's part, that granting him a stay would call into question the -other- 30 years worth of cases said investigators had been using witchcraft to "solve"...and for the governer's part, good ole Slick Rick, the response was, essentially "well, he was a scumbag". He may have been a scumbag, scumbag, but if being a scumbag was a capital offense your head would've been on the block long ago.
See, we even execute em when we know they're innocent......so....this certainty of guilt business is just, well, superfluous..lol.
The state was concerned, for it's part, that granting him a stay would call into question the -other- 30 years worth of cases said investigators had been using witchcraft to "solve"...and for the governer's part, good ole Slick Rick, the response was, essentially "well, he was a scumbag". He may have been a scumbag, scumbag, but if being a scumbag was a capital offense your head would've been on the block long ago.
See, we even execute em when we know they're innocent......so....this certainty of guilt business is just, well, superfluous..lol.
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