Re: Death penalty

FWIW, I've read that others say that there was plenty of evidence to convict 
him.  That being said: he may not have deserved to die and I have no problem 
doing away with the death penalty in cases such as those.  And a very 
strong, if not irrefutable, case can be made that TX's application of the 
death penalty in the majority of cases is disgustingly unjust.

But that does not mean guys like the one in Connecticut don't deserve to 
die.

Mike F.





-----Original Message----- 
From: Lance McLain
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 9:11 AM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Death penalty

The irreversibility of this particular form of punishment is one of
the reasons I'm against it.

regards,
-Lance

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DNA shows man may have been wrongly executed

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7290205.html

By JEFF CARLTON Associated Press © 2010
The Associated PressNov. 11, 2010, 2:50PM

DALLAS — A DNA test on a strand of hair that linked a convicted
murderer to the crime scene shows it wasn't his — a revelation that
strongly suggests the Texas man was wrongly executed under state law.

That single strand was the only piece of physical evidence linking
career criminal Claude Jones to the 1989 killing of a liquor store
owner in Point Blank, Texas. He was executed in December 2000, the
last person put to death during George W. Bush's time as governor.

A judge would have to make the final decision on whether Jones was
wrongly executed. Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project, a
New York legal center, acknowledges the hair doesn't prove Jones'
innocence but does show there was insufficient evidence to convict and
execute him.
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