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re: Alabama executes cop-killer Thursday night
Posted on 10/20/17 at 8:02 am to jlntiger
Posted on 10/20/17 at 8:02 am to jlntiger
But how many people have been exonerated by DNA decades after their sentencing?
I'd rather have 10 killers live 20 more years than to execute someone who was wrongfully convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
I'd rather have 10 killers live 20 more years than to execute someone who was wrongfully convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
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Posted on 10/20/17 at 8:05 am to TH03
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I'd rather have 10 killers live 20 more years
unless that killer killed someone who meant something to you.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 9:37 am to TH03
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But how many people have been exonerated by DNA decades after their sentencing?
A handful, but those crimes all occurred when DNA testing was less sophisticated or nonexistent.
I'm not saying there won't be wrongful convictions, but if the conviction is based on DNA evidence, that's going to be nearly impossible.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 9:43 am to TH03
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But how many people have been exonerated by DNA decades after their sentencing?
I'd rather have 10 killers live 20 more years than to execute someone who was wrongfully convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
I agree wth you to an extent. The thought of executing an innocent person is horrifying, and it’s probably happened. But the process of clearing people through dna or whatever shouldn’t take 20 years. Most overturned capital convictions aren’t even about guilt/innocence. It’s defense lawyers finding technicalities, or arguing about racist jury pools, or that the murderer was mildly retarded. So the overturned convictions you hear about is mostly turning those death row inmates into life without parole inmates. Big whoop.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:50 pm to TH03
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But how many people have been exonerated by DNA decades after their sentencing?
Forensics involving DNA for criminal investigations is relatively new technology. I don't think the first case was made using it until the 90s in La. DNA is being used to clear people who were wrongly convicted before the technology was available.
Its a different situation now. And in the case of this guy< it wasn't a "who done it" type of case. In situations like that why hold off?
This post was edited on 10/20/17 at 2:50 pm
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