Posted on 07/28/2004 10:18:07 AM PDT by neverdem
Geraldo did an interview with O'Reilly about a year or so ago. I took it from that interview that both of them were packing. Geraldo asked first and O'Reilly responded with, "Are you?". Geraldo said he wasn't telling and O'Reilly responded that he wasn't either. Neither would admit to it or deny it but it seemed like both were "packing", as they put it.
As you point out, DNA reports can be manipulated. One doesn't get certainty on DNA evidence alone. What would provide CERTAINTY of a capital crime? Some of those that would be convincing to me (off the top of my head):
1. Captured in the act (as with a cop killer.)
2. Multiple eyewitnesses otherwise unconnected to the accused.
3. Single eyewitness with multiple items of support.
4. Virtual eyewitness: video tape, audio tape, tv camera, etc.
5. Confessions in which the accused offers confirmatory evidence in addition to the confession.
6. Multiple points of biometric evidence that eliminate all other possibilities.
Oh, wait a minute... what was I thinking?
Never mind.
I'm for the most part opposed to the death penalty. I don't trust having government with that kind of power.
The only cases I support it are for treason, terrorists, war cases, and possibly in cases where guilt can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt(not reasonable doubt). Other than that, I can't back it.
Flame away.
Krauthammer I disagree with bigtime on this, but at least he's honest about it as well as the point of the AW ban. O'Reilly is a joke on this issue.
John F*ckin' is out the mainstream on the death penalty. He is as much a card-carrying ACLU member on the issue of being soft on murderers as another Massachusettan named Michael Dukakis was.
What an astonishingly poorly written article! They must be really scraping the bottom of the barrel these days. Regardless of the relative merits of the DP, citing the ACLU, an un-elected group if there ever was one, leaves the sensitive reader underwhelmed, if not suspicious.
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