It is amazing how many people, based on a few paragraphs of information of unknown validity, are willing to overturn the death penalty given after a jury of 12 heard all the evidence (the convicted DID have a defense attorny, didn't he?).
And I doubt ANY death penalty is administered in America without one or two appeals courts reviewing the case.
But hey! There has been an internet post of a few sentences, so we now know it was some facist, hate-filled amatuer southern cops brutally attacking this sweet paragon of virtue!
Sorry - the odds of the posters here knowing squat all about what really happened is near zero.
Raw agendas.
thank you...amazing eh
How good, is very much in the air.
And I doubt ANY death penalty is administered in America without one or two appeals courts reviewing the case.
Appeals courts are not inquisitors. They are additional forums for the adversarial process. If one advocate is simply incompetent, the appeals courts benefit zilch.
He almost certainly had some sort of attourney. On the other hand, I would think that someone who could afford a defense attourney worthy of a case like this probably wouldn't be living in a duplex.
And I doubt ANY death penalty is administered in America without one or two appeals courts reviewing the case.
Unfortunately, the way the system is set up one can almost never appeal one's own attourney's mistakes (even if the attourney is a public defender). While there are generally sound reasons for this, it can nonetheless lead to injustices.
BTW, I would expect the state to exert more efforts prosecuting this guy if he's innocent than if he's actually guilty. After all, if he's innocent that would point the finger of responsibility elsewhere.