To: Enemy Of The State
If racial discrimination is supposedly the problem (a premise I do not accept, but will assume for purposes of argument), how is halting executions the solution to the problem? Applying the death penalty more rigorously (e.g. in more cases in which the victim is black or the accused is white) would be an equally effective solution. This argument also ignores how capital crime cases are actually decided, i.e. they are based on what the accused actually did (as proven by the prosecution beyond a reasnable doubt), not on the color of his skin.
5 posted on
04/27/2003 10:31:00 AM PDT by
kesg
To: kesg
except if they have the wrong person and that person doesn't have the money to defend him or herself. and they can accuse the wrong person when they want to get rid of a case fast. and what better than and uneducated person
(especially during an election year
35 posted on
04/27/2003 5:08:09 PM PDT by
Walnut
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