[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>"Joan Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hello Terry,
>
>I agree that trials do not seem to be a search for the truth, mores the
>pity. However, from all I've read and heard there seems to be a long time
>between sentencing and the death penalty actually being carried out. Isn't
>it usually many years?
Remember, Joan, that the most notorious case of prosecutor misconduct in
this country currently which sent two men to death row was a cause celebre
used to limit the appeals process. And the appeals process very seldom
looks at evidence of innocence. They are mostly in interested in the famous
procedural error which often has nothing whatever to do with guilt or
innocence. One man went to his death with the Supreme Court agreeing that
such evidence didn't matter. It was too late.
>I certainly agree there is no excuse for killing innocent people.
Then it is illogical to favor the death penalty.
>How would you feel about the DP if you were sure there
>had not been a miscarriage of justice and no innocent person would be
>executed?
>
> Joan
I shed no tears whatever for Ted Bundy. I think it will be just fine when
Richard C. Harris is put out of his misery. I am sorry Pol Pot died before
they hanged him.
Being a bleeding heart liberal doesn't mean you don't have normal human
emotions.
Best, Terry
"Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law" - The Devil's Dictionary
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