Posted on 01/17/2006 7:55:31 AM PST by rellimpank
Something happened in the middle of Samuel Alito's triumphant hearings in the Senate last week that shouldn't be allowed to slip by.
On Thursday, just as the hearings were winding up, results came back from a Toronto laboratory that DNA testing had affirmed once again that Roger Keith Coleman, executed in 1992 by Virginia for the rape and murder of his sister-in-law, was indeed guilty of the crime.
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To anyone who doesn't believe algore, it is well within belief.
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But I don't see them celebrating that fact. - tom
I'm all for DNA testing and if it means some folks in jail get set free, then that's fine.
However, it would be interesting to see how many death row inmates would take the following DNA challenge: If DNA exonerates you, you go free. If DNA "proves" you did it, you just lost all of your appeals and off you go to the great beyond.
I'm sure this is too simplistic, but it's a thought.
I like it.
--great idea--
The SOB sure was a convincing liar....The anti death penalty folks said they felt "duped and betrayed".
There was hardly any followup to his DNA proving he was indeed guilty so as usual the seed was planted that he may be innocent and since no follow up he must have been innocent.
Typical from the lamestream.
It is so damn hard to get any jail time in this country for a crime even harder to get the DP. There are so many steps involved, something like 78.
It sickens me that some worry about the 3000 or so condemned over all he murder victims in this country. What is it like 50k murders per year and only 3000 on death row.
Liberal activists within the law community = stuck on stupid!
If there's a match, the guilty party is executed within the hour. Hey, why wait?
There was that guy in OH that was finally released quite a while after DNA evidence showed he was not the DNA provider on a MIL & niece assault & murder of MIL.
The reason: it didn't matter that their was another assaulter, the niece (very young at the time) identified the uncle. Seems like her ID went along the lines of someone like her uncle, which they were able to make into her uncle.
Not sure what a MIL is.
Like I said, if DNA means someone that a jury convicted gets to go free, then that's great and an injustice has been corrected.
It seems they were not the only ones "duped." You are for believing a single word of that tripe. The murderer lovers, in fact, don't care. They are just upset because they don't have something to hang their hat on, anymore. Funny thing, how the truth has a way of reaching up and biting people on the backside.
Obviously...The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions. Prov. 1:7
Excellent Article. Thanks for posting it.
I was never duped! However they ran an interviews of the guy before the results came out..he looked right into the camera several times and claimed his innocence over the years.. No eye shifting... An evil incarnate gifted liar.
He was the AntiDeath Penalty industries golden boy
A few times a year guys are released after DNA exonerates them. Last year in VA some guy was released after 18 years for a rape he didn't commit...life stolen and destroyed.
I'm no bed wetting liberal but realize sometimes people may get railroaded by a prosecutor more interested in winning than justice.
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