[recoznet2] death penalty

[tdunlop]

Trudy,   I'm not quite sure what your comment above this news article means exactly, but it prompts a comment.  The fact that Australia doesn't actually have a death penalty is in large part thanks to academics and students who led protests against it in the sixties - wrote articles, organised rallies and actually got the legislation changed (see the book The Penalty is Death edited by Barry Jones, for example).  So your comment seems a little harsh - though if I have misinterpreted it, I apologise.   Tim   Trudy wrote:   Not so different from Australia except there are no students here to expose the injustices. --- Trudy ================================================= Students help set agenda for US death penalty reform Source: AFP | Published: Monday February 7, 1:58 AM CHICAGO - Thirteen men on death row have been exonerated in Illinois - and those are the '13 mistakes we know about,' the state's governor admitted candidly. The startling admission came as Governor George Ryan declared a de facto moratorium on this state's capital punishment system amid mounting evidence of its fallibility. Perhaps equally damning is the fact that a handful of these men owe their lives, and in some cases their liberty, not to the state's criminal justice system, but a trio of cru