No executions in Arkansas last night

I don't see what the hub bub is about. These people have been convicted and sentenced to death. What is stopping them from carrying out the sentence that was handed down from a jury?

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As long as people are still being exonerated (roughly 10% the number of people executed since it's been reimplements have been exonerated),

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Are you saying that one out of every ten people EXECUTED have been found to be NOT GUILTY post mortem?

Not saying I don't believe you, but I don't believe you. Link please.

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As long as people are still being exonerated (roughly 10% the number of people executed since it's been reimplements have been exonerated),


Are you saying that one out of every ten people EXECUTED have been found to be NOT GUILTY post mortem?

Not saying I don't believe you, but I don't believe you. Link please.

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No, that was poorly worded: The DP was reinstitute in 1976 in Gregg v. GA. Since then, we have executed 1448 people (Numbers), and during that time we have exonerated 157 people on death row (Numbers: scroll down a bit). 1448/157=9.22%

My overall point was, as long as we are getting it wrong at this rate, the argument to speed the process up is irrelevant. To my knowledge, there has been one person found innocent post-modum (from TX). It wasn't official (by court) because TX paid a huge settlement to stop the wrongful death case from moving forward (if I'm remembering correctly).

Still, the process is slow, and they have all the appeals for a reason: Nearly 10% of people sentenced to death are exonerated. I'll also add that only a small percentage of those are due to new DNA testing. Only 20 of the 157 were due to DNA testing. LINK

Unfortunately

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I think the number is way lower than that but as long as it is above 0% we shouldn't be executing people.

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Death penalty should only be used when the evidence is completely irrefutable, such as being on video or something.

And we should execute inmates using a low O2 or high CO environment. Cheap as hell and completely humane. Inmates will become euphoric and then go to sleep forever.

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That's a strange argument. If you want to use relevant statistics you should figure out the percentage exonerated vs. of the total number of people on death row.

total on death row/157=?

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Just to follow up, there are 2902 people on death row, but that number is fluid (people on death row die from natural causes, execution, or are exonerated) and changes often monthly. Another reason why I choose to use hard numbers.

The Arkansas 7:

1. slaying of Jane Daniel

2. murder of Carol Heath. Children saw their mother and the man fight, she saw her mother on the floor bleeding, and that the man was next to her mother, holding a knife

3. Convicted and sentenced to Death for raping and murdering a bookkeeper and beating her 11-year-old daughter. On June 6th, 1995, 34-year-old Mary Phillips and her daughter, Lacy, were at a Bald Knob accounting office when Jones entered the office and robbed them. Lacy lost consciousness and was left for dead. When she awoke, police were taking photographs of her. Mary Phillips was found nude from the waist down with a cord from a nearby coffee pot wrapped around her neck. She also had been hit about the head and had bruises on her arms and back.

4. beating and strangling death of Debra Reese, 26, in the Sunnyside addition, where he had attacked several other women. He was also convicted of raping two Jacksonville women and was tried for the murder of Christine Lewis,  daughter of the late Alderman Robert Lewis. Lee was also suspected of killing a Jacksonville prostitute and dumping her body in a shed near the railroad tracks. Lewis, 22, was abducted from her Sunnyside home in November 1989 as her 3-year-old child watched. She was raped and strangled and her body dumped in the closet of an abandoned home. DNA evidence tied Lee to the murders and rapes. Reese was struck 36 times with a tire tool her husband gave her for protection while he was out of town on a truck driving job. Lee, who had just been paroled after serving time for burglary, was arrested an hour after the murder when witnesses reported seeing him walking the street.

5. The group then bound his hands and took him to an abandoned house in Omaha, where they beat him again, cut him and burned him. Finally, McGehee and two others took turns strangling him until he died.

6. Convicted of the capital murder of eighteen-year-old Rebecca Doss

7. slaying of 57 year old Cecil Boren after Williams broke out of the Cummins Unit at
Varner. He had been serving a sentence of life without parole in the slaying of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff cheerleader Dominique "Nikki" Hurd

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I agree, but honestly the low IQ mouthbreathers that think we should just take them out back and shoot them aren't really worth the effort. It's impossible to have an intelligent conversation when one side lacks any.

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it's pretty funny how much faith they put in the justice system, which boils down to the jury vote of 12 typically uninformed hicks. See West Memphis.

i'm not anti capital punishment by any means but way too many people get wrongfully convicted in our courts

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Palmetto08

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Your point is? I work with/around some of the worst criminals on a daily/weekly basis. You're not going to shock and awe me into an emotional "kill them all" response by posting what they did. I've been apart of the defense, prosecution, and appeals process (on the defense side) of some pretty fricked up shite, including capital crimes.

My argument is based on rationale thought: It will cost more to kill those people via lethal injection when it's all said and done than if they would have been sentenced to LWOP from the get go.