So you're saying that we should drop the death penalty against every murderer for the fact that they may not have done it despite the evidence against them?
If I saw my daughter being raped, I would pull a gun on that rapist and blow his brains onto the wall.
That was not the case here, the daughter told her about a rape from several years back. Mom took a gun to his place of work and capped him.
That is not the case here. Here in Atlanta, a man was released from prison after 24 years of serving a rape conviction after DNA evidence proved that he was not guilty.
In the original trial, the victim ID'd the defendant and said "that is him - I will never forget the color of his skin".
Ends up that she was mistaken. Her recollection was influenced by photographs shown to her by the police of potential suspects.
The new DNA evidence did pinpoint the man who really did rape her - he is already in jail for other crimes. When the rape victim was recently shown photos of what the actual rapist and the man she sent to jail looked like 24 years ago, she said "well they do look kind of alike, don't you think?"
This man served 24 years for a crime he didn't commit - if the victim's mother had killed him, no one would have ever known the truth.