Re: in Alabama, there are two sets of laws
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:10 pm
That's pretty messed up.
Tom In VA wrote:![]()
If this dude ain't the ole ball coach's Pappy, who is?IndyFrisco wrote:What a douchebag. Amazed some slunt allowed him to slip his cack in her vadge.
Nah. The clusterfuck that was the Illinois death penalty process already took care of that. Amazing how many innocent people they found on death row.mvscal wrote:Not a chance. Just anti-DP bedwetters doing their best to undermine public confidence in the process.Tom In VA wrote:Innocent dude killed ?
IndyFrisco wrote:What a douchebag. Amazed some slunt allowed him to slip his cack in her vadge.
In the Land of Blogo, Daley and Obama?BSmack wrote:Nah. The clusterfuck that was the Illinois death penalty process already took care of that. Amazing how many innocent people they found on death row.mvscal wrote:Not a chance. Just anti-DP bedwetters doing their best to undermine public confidence in the process.Tom In VA wrote:Innocent dude killed ?
Another good argument for allowing polygraph testimony to be admitted in court. Fewer cops perjuring themselves and DA's suborning said perjury means fewer wrongful prosecutions and executions.Jsc810 wrote:mvscal, there have been innocent people executed.
And there are some on Death Row now who are innocent.
I'm not talking about some legal argument about excluding evidence or some such, I'm talking actual innocence.
Believe me, I'm very much in favor of capital punishment. But it has to be done right.
Somewhat off-topic, but my son-in-law has a job that requires him to maintain a top secret clearance, which entails being polygraphed. I haven't stayed on top of polygraph technology and assumed it was basically still done by strapping one up with sensors and electrodes. He was telling me his are now done with laser (or something similar) and there is nothing hooked up to the individual being tested. The lasers are able to detect and record the same information as before (cardio response, measured in terms of blood pressure variations, heartbeat and pulse wave, skin resistance, which is affected by the amount of perspiration, and respiratory activity). Seems pretty innovative.Diogenes wrote:Another good argument for allowing polygraph testimony to be admitted in court.
Does it matter how many ? This isn't a game of percentages here and this is absolutely a situation that can be scrutinized to the highest level to ensure complete accuracy - with today's technology.mvscal wrote:Again, who and how many?
Kinda hard to put numbers to those who are on Death Row and are innocent, since if they've been legally determined to be innocent, they presumably wouldn't be on Death Row anymore. But there are some relevant stats available:mvscal wrote:How many? Let's put some real numbers on the table.Jsc810 wrote:mvscal, there have been innocent people executed.
Again, who and how many?And there are some on Death Row now who are innocent.
It would appear that whatever the raw numbers are, the percentage of those later found innocent who were sentenced to death is ~ .5 to 3%. I suppose it's up to each individual to determine if that's acceptable in the name of justifying executions.The NY Times in 2004 wrote:* In the 1990's, an average of 290 people were sentenced to death each year. For the last four years, the average has been 174.
* In 2003, there were 143 death sentences issued, the fewest since 1977, the year after the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty.
* The report says that 116 innocent people have been released from death row since 1973, after serving an average of nine years each.
* Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Federal District Court in New York, using what he described as a more conservative methodology, said he counted 32 who served time on death row in recent decades and were indisputably innocent. Many prosecutors accept that number. "I think 30 is fair," said Joshua Marquis, the district attorney in Astoria, Ore., and co-chairman of the capital litigation committee of the National District Attorneys Association.
* "You're talking about an extremely small, microscopic number," said Ward A. Campbell, a supervising deputy state attorney general in Sacramento. The correct comparison, Mr. Campbell said, is between the roughly 7,000 death sentences issued since 1976 and the number of death-row inmates who were freed as authentically innocent.
* DNA has played a role in only 14 death-row exonerations.
* The [Death Penalty Information Center], a research group, says it takes no position on capital punishment, though it has been critical of the way the death penalty is applied. Supporters of the death penalty say the group's real agenda is the abolition of the capital punishment.
* "We've executed 928 people and freed 116," [Richard C. Dieter, the center's executive director] said, referring to recent decades. "Those are not good numbers."
BTW, Perry was never a prosecutor. And all the insipid attacks on him are due to the fact that he's doing a stand up job.Tom In VA wrote:Does it matter how many ? This isn't a game of percentages here and this is absolutely a situation that can be scrutinized to the highest level to ensure complete accuracy - with today's technology.mvscal wrote:Again, who and how many?
It's cheesedick prosecutors and politicians that usually look like this: