Pete Theisen wrote: > Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > >> Read the below link to get some idea of Obama's position on the death >> penalty: >> > > >> "We brought police officers and civil rights advocates together to >> reform a death penalty system that had sent 13 innocent men to death >> row," >> > > Hi Leland! > > I think his role may have been glorified - people quoted referring to > him on a first name basis indicates that they were/are his cronies, but > to the extent that he contributed, it is a good thing. > > Were I a governor I would sign every death warrant presented to me and I > would also at the same time grant a conditional stay of execution. As > long as the convicted murderer never tried to get out, never asked for a > new trial except based on positive dna evidence of innocence, and was a > model prisoner the stay of execution would remain in force, effectively > commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment. Violate the > conditions of the stay and the convict is immediately executed. >
That's not a bad idea, except for one thing. Sometime it takes years, or even decades, before the innocences of a convicted death row inmate come to light. I think it would be better to have a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole. Then, if a prisoner is proven innocent beyond a doubt after many, many years, the wrongful conviction can be set aside and the prisoner released. Regards, LelandJ --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
