I hadn't heard that. How did they figure he was innocent? Was it the old "Some other dude did it"---i.e., somebody else was burying bodies under his house without his knowledge and consent?
1) Who said anything about lethal injections? And, granting your point, how dare those on the other side characterize me and those like me as "cruel?" Particularly considering what hellholes a lot of prisons are!
2) The State already has powers that it routinely misuses...the power to tax, for instance. I don't see you crying out against them---if you do, I do apologize for misjudging you. Even back when the DP was routine, it was not used indiscriminately, and, then and now, getting someone so much as convicted, much less sentenced to death, was by no means routine.
3) I know of no case of an executed person later proven to be innocent in the US in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries, and even Timothy Evans in the UK is by no means certain---serial killers, we now know, have been known to work together. (Fred and Rose West, or the Highway Stranglers in Southern California, to name two examples off the top of my head.) I grant freely that non-free countries often misuse the death penalty, but they misuse all their
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1) You would do me a favour if you did not indulge in the invention of an abstract anti-death-penalty campaigner designed to suit your priorities, and then apply that to me. I am not so stupid as to use the word "cruel" to condemn any punishment; no punishment is punishment unless it is unpleasant, and intended to be unpleasant. Kindly deal with what I say, not with what you would like me to say
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2) The State already has powers that it routinely misuses...the power to tax, for instance. I don't see you crying out against them---if you do, I do apologize for misjudging you. Even back when the DP was routine, it was not used indiscriminately, and, then and now, getting someone so much as convicted, much less sentenced to death, was by no means routine.
3) I know of no case of an executed person later proven to be innocent in the US in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries, and even Timothy Evans in the UK is by no means certain---serial killers, we now know, have been known to work together. (Fred and Rose West, or the Highway Stranglers in Southern California, to name two examples off the top of my head.) I grant freely that non-free countries often misuse the death penalty, but they misuse all their ( ... )
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