[APFel]

So let me see if I can follow your logic.

Since Louisiana was unfair to blacks in the Jim Crow era, the murder should be let free. Letting a murderer out of prison because he was convicted during the Jim Crow era is just, because the state that convicted him was unjust. Minorities not being able to sit on a jury is a worse crime than murder (the actual taking of a persons life), so the murder should be absolved.

Now we should just sit around and hope that he behaves. Because we have to do some sort of cosmic penance, I imagine (help me out here??)

Okay.

Usually logic follows some sort of reasonable sequence and the two things you are trying to relate actually have something in common. Let's try a few exercises on how not to construct a syllogism.

1) My father has a red dog that is kind.
2) I see a red dog on the street.
3) Therefore that dog must belong to my father OR
4) Therefore that dog is kind.

Next one.

1) The murder was black.
2) Black people suffered under Jim Crow laws.
3) Therefore, the murderer should go free.

Hope that helps.

APf

[trumandogz]

The US Constitution states that people charged with a crime shall be granted a fair trial.

The 5th ruled that he was denied a fair trial.

Therefore his conviction was overturned.