On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 05:02 pm, Julia Thompson wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:
Texas was barbecuing their criminals (okay, okay... it's an awful choice of
words) on a regular basis while GWB was governor. I can't imagine that all
those people really deserved to be put to death for their crimes. And, as
you said, the disproportionate numbers of nonwhite poor who are given the
death penalty is also a concern.
They haven't exactly stopped since Perry was sworn in as governor.
I'm personally not comfortable with the death penalty. I'd really, really
like for "life in prison without possibility of parole" to be an option in
Texas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/24/national/24DNA.html?pagewanted=1
"Judge Laura Denvir Stith seemed not to believe what she was hearing.
A prosecutor was trying to block a death row inmate from having his conviction reopened on the basis of new evidence, and Judge Stith, of the Missouri Supreme Court, was getting exasperated. "Are you suggesting," she asked the prosecutor, that "even if we find Mr. Amrine is actually innocent, he should be executed?"
Frank A. Jung, an assistant state attorney general, replied, "That's correct, your honor.""
.......
""To make sure we are clear on this," Judge Michael A. Wolff of the Supreme Court replied, "if we find in a particular case that DNA evidence absolutely excludes somebody as the murderer, then we must execute them anyway if we can't find an underlying constitutional violation at their trial?"
Again, Mr. Jung said yes."
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