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Guess innocence isn't as important as the death penalty. They should have known that someone lied under oath at the time, right?
Or maybe they could not execute him and take the time to find out if the new information is true or not.
Or you know... just don't execute people ever because they can't ever be 100% sure.
that would even be better
Don't be obtuse. Multiple lines of evidence were presented to convince 12 people that he was guilty.
Guess we should just release everybody from prison because we can never know with 100% certainty that anyone ever did anything.
No matter how many people believe that Haitian immigrants are eating cats, it doesn't become true just because it is believed by many.
So just our entire system of law is meaningless then?
Not meaningless, just flawed
I prefer the truth to "a lot of people say".
There are a lot of options between release and execution. Maybe we should consider those.
I hope, if your life ever ends up on the line, you're met with more sympathy and care than you are willing to show others. You're being non-chalant about killing someone. Maybe you're young and will develop empathy, but if this is you and always will be you then frankly I'd make the trade here.
I'm absolutely not. I don't believe in the death penalty - and I'm not defending it. But you can't throw out every case because somebody makes a new claim. Everybody in this thread is believing the new information unquestionably. The trial would have presented other corroborating evidence as well.
It's like how you still need to determine if somebody committed a crime even if they confess.
yeah maybe you can, if the sentence is death. This isn't a traffic ticket.
Nobody said throw it out.
but the cheap labor?? the us wouldn't survive without the prison system, don't know why they're wasting good drugs on the guy though, why waste a life unless we get to make some burgers out of him or something, right? god bless
Things can be known with certainty; just not from testimony.