Kevin wrote: (mind the snippage)
> Today there were two gems, candidates from the Green party and the > Libertarian. The Green was clearly unpolished, he spent 75% of the time > telling his personal history, and then just said what was wrong, no > solutions. He finished by saying that ten people have been released from > death sentences with DNA evidence, so the death penalty should be abolished > and these innocents set free. (Not trying to show a bias for against the > death penalty, just how does a prisoner go from a death sentence to > innocent. Yes some are innocent, but most are not.) The meaning, at least as *I* apply it, is that the person on death row, while probably not an "innocent" in the sense of "never did anything at all wrong" is, in the case of those exonerated, "innocent of the crime for which he was sentenced to death". That's my concern about the death penalty, and why I can't support it - there's good evidence that a significant percentage of the people on death row could very well not be guilty of the crimes for which they've been sentenced. I won't deny that there are a large number of people on death row that are guilty of murder, and I don't think murderers deserve to walk free. Life in prison without parole will keep them off the streets, and you can always release them if they're proven innocent. Once someone's dead, though, they're dead. We can't give them their life back, and when an innocent man is executed for a crime he didn't commit, how is justice served? Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Silence. I am watching television." - Spider Jerusalem _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
