China executes 10,000 a year and they wind up in the won ton soup here in NJ
--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Pete Theisen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Pete Theisen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OT] Welcome to Deemocracy > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 12:06 AM > geoff wrote: > > You really don't want to play this game. Texas > executes the mentally > > deficient and the innocent at a rate which should > appal even madagain. > > Although Im not quite sure what rate of wrongful > execution IS acceptable. > > There are multiple examples of innocents executed in > Texas and Project > > Innocence has proved the point time and time again. So > showing as an example > > one person caught dead-to-rights is disingenuous. And > I must ask how you can > > show 331 inmates on death row and not comment. Thats a > LOT of people looking > > at execution. That doesn't seem a tad oppressive or > excessive to you? > > Hi Geoff, > > China executes 10,000 a year, year in and year out. Texas > executed 4 > this year, 17 last year, maybe 15 or 16 the year before. > All for murder, > often multiple murders. You want they should sing to them? > > That said, I personally think execution is an easy way out > and I prefer > a life sentence with Bubba as a roommate so you won't be > lonely. But > nobody asks me. I reply to you because your information is > so far off. > > >> Coz they will execute you with scant regard to > evidence. > > > Will they! I count 331 inmates on Death Row in Texas. > > > > http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/offendersondrow.htm > > > > Sample, picked at random, is #615. Convicted in a 1978 > murder, arrested > > with a smoking gun the next day. Sentence to life in > prison. Shot his > > (armed robbery) victim twice, was arrested with the > victim's pistol in > > his possession. What kind of evidence should there > have been? > -- > Regards, > > Pete > http://pete-theisen.com/ > http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
