[RonF]

At some point it's going to happen; it'll be proved that a man was executed on the basis of testimony or evidence that will be found to have been false. It may even happen that it will be proved that an innocent man was executed. And that's when there will be a serious push in America to abolish the death penalty.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Doubt it........

[bkepley]

At some point it's going to happen; it'll be proved that a man was executed on the basis of testimony or evidence that will be found to have been false. It may even happen that it will be proved that an innocent man was executed. And that's when there will be a serious push in America to abolish the death penalty.

To tell the truth, I have no loyalty to the death penalty. I can see valid arguments on both sides.

[mc6809e]

It may even happen that it will be proved that an innocent man was executed. And that's when there will be a serious push in America to abolish the death penalty.

And that would be too bad.

Some people deserve to be executed, no doubt. At the same time, you have to be much more certain about guilt when someone's life is on the line.

Maybe people will stop trusting their intuition and instead look to science to get it right.

[silentknight]

Quote "At some point it's going to happen; it'll be proved that a man was executed on the basis of testimony or evidence that will be found to have been false. It may even happen that it will be proved that an innocent man was executed. And that's when there will be a serious push in America to abolish the death penalty."

Ummm that has already happened in several states. Nothing has changed.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I don't know the background of this case, but it IS important to distinguish between innocent people being convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and violent low-life scum being convicted of a crime they didn't commit. The latter is a lot more common than the former (as so aptly demonstrated by that monster who got sprung a couple of years ago on a "wrongly convicted" decision, and promptly abducted, raped, tortured, and killed a young woman, burned her body and hid it in a junkyard). Juries and judges generally take the defendant's demeanor, and other info about him/her into account (though they're generally not allowed to hear specifics of past convictions until the sentencing phase) when deciding if the evidence is sufficient to convict, and sufficient to warrant life w/o parole or the death penalty.

[LexBaird]

At some point it's going to happen; it'll be proved that a man was executed on the basis of testimony or evidence that will be found to have been false. It may even happen that it will be proved that an innocent man was executed. And that's when there will be a serious push in America to abolish the death penalty.

Far more people have died as a result of letting guilty people go for lack of, or faulty evidence than innocents have been executed for lack of, or faulty evidence. But people never seem to count those costs to innocent life.

[MEGoody]

At some point it's going to happen

It probably already has. But the death penalty is still an appropriate sentence for someone found guilty of murder by a jury of his/her peers.