Did Texas execute an innocent man?
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Did Texas execute an innocent man?
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Re: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
#2Just based on the title, I'd have to say "more probable than any other state". I should probably have flagged this article, but 'eh.
Re: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
#3Yes, they did. It is time for a national death penalty moratorium. This is not the first time.
This is a more straightforward read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Willingham
Re: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
#4Yes, they did. It is time for a national death penalty moratorium. This is not the first time. This is a more straightforward read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Willingham
And it certainly wasn't the first time, either.
Re: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
#5That's the most outrageous, devilish thing that can and eventually had happened or will happen with death penalty. Someday, we will know we killed an innocent man, and in that day we will ALL be murderers. We all being murderers, we should all be sentenced to death (the Death Penalty Paradox).
Re: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
#6Yes, they did. It is time for a national death penalty moratorium. This is not the first time. This is a more straightforward read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Willingham
How is this any worse than the collateral damage of war?
Re: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
#7Re: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
#8Yes, they did. It is time for a national death penalty moratorium. This is not the first time. This is a more straightforward read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Willingham
Focusing on the death penalty is completely missing the point.
If you're writing code and something keeps throwing nasty exceptions, you don't remove the exception handling - you fix the code.
Death penalty isn't the problem (leaving aside the traditional death penalty debate for a moment). Innocent people being found guilty, often by highly (and unnecessarily) faulty process, is the problem.
Cutting out the death penalty just hides the problem. I'm not saying that it's a bad idea to avoid putting these people to death, but the actual problem needs to be identified and dealt with.
Cases of such magnitude need rigorous scientific oversight, not just the say-so of whatever self-proclaimed "expert" was on hand to drag into court that day.
Re: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
#9Yes, they did. It is time for a national death penalty moratorium. This is not the first time. This is a more straightforward read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Willingham
How is this any worse than the collateral damage of war?
By definition, collateral damage is unintended killing, whereas capital punishment is doubtlessly intended killing.
Re: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
#10Yes, they did. It is time for a national death penalty moratorium. This is not the first time. This is a more straightforward read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Willingham
How is this any worse than the collateral damage of war?
Woah - have you stopped beating your wife yet?
To play Devil's Advocate: this man was a citizen. A State has fundamentally failed when it has executed one of its citizens.