[DoodleBob]

When I see Merrick Garland, the FBI, and countless other dimensions of the law consciously ignoring justice, and you add many cases of Death Row inmates being released when an evil prosecutor or DNA comes to light, being anti-death penalty on technical/empirical grounds is perfectly legit.

We don't have to give the bad guys the royal treatment. But death had only been cheated by One Man. I can't get behind the chair etc.

Personally, the case of the Amiraults in Mass (and the coverage in the WSJ) helped turn the tide for me, and that wasn't even a capital case. In fact that sombich DA remained in power and unrepentant.

[Gay State Conservative]

I don't have the slightest problem with a person who was convicted of a crime eventually being proven innocent...perhaps in an old case where they decide.years later,to do DNA testing...and being released. This nation doesn't benefit in the least by a person being convicted of something they didn't do.

I really like DNA for *three* reasons: 1) it lessens the chances of an innocent person being charged/convicted 2) it increases the chances that a person wrongly convicted *before* DNA being exonerated and 3) it increases the chances of the truly guilty being caught,convicted and punished.