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[schmiss]

Innocent, but Executed

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[subtle_overlord]

D=

I'll be praying for his family.

[afa_mom]

this is why the death penalty should only be used if they are sure there guilty

[syndicalist]

hilarious

[escherichiacola]

Let me get out my electric guilt finding machine.

[afa_mom]

sometimes the evidence proves guilt 100%. a case like this isn't one of them.

[___closetome]

Eyewitness testimony is also notoriously unreliable.

yay qaf icon.

[hermionemalfoy]

And yet it gets treated like it's the MOST reliable!! WTF.

This reminds me of the trial I was a juror for where one of the expert witness psychologists insisted that combining "clinical judgment" with simple plug-and-chug actuarial assessments resulted in less accurate diagnoses than actuarial assessments alone. That concept, like dismissing eyewitness testimony, is difficult to swallow. He just kept repeating, "the science doesn't support me using my professional judgment!" while the prosecution looked at him like he was a loon.

[syndicalist]

So this article is about an actual - not make believe - death panel, right?

The government isn't competent or trustworthy enough to run the mail, but it is competent and trustworthy enough to execute people.

[escherichiacola]

x100

[flowerings]

I like this.

[bludstone]

the government isnt competent or trustworthy enough to execute people.

[ladypolitik]

Just another reason why the death penalty is immoral. How many so-called progressives would have said "normally I'm a pacifist but this asshole killed children and deserves everything he gets" etc etc? The state has no power to willingly take a life in this manner, ESPECIALLY when there is even a sliver of a margin of error, much less such a risk of faulty forensic analysis.

+5,000,000.