Just goes to show ya that you can't even trust an honest purse snatcher these days. What a trumped up charge!!
Seems like the news mentioned not all that long ago that some states were moving to pass legislation to prevent improperly charged and incarcerated prisoners from the right to compensation.
For all the complaining about this DNA test' cost... its about 600 dollars. They're willing to spend MILLIONS to put someone to death with all the appeals and such (when life costs hundreds of thousands), yet hedge at a piddly 600? Makes both of us suspicious.
And yes we are basically against the death penalty. If nothing more than to save all those tax dollars in cases of actual guilt. Actual guilt would have to be 'caught with the smoking gun over the body'. It's just too easy to twist evidence. I'd have to think 23 hours a day in a cell all alone would be more punishment than death.
Putting even one person to death that turns out innocent... well thats just wrong. I know if I lost someone to murder, my first reaction would be death, but a few years down the road, when I was watching tv, cat on the lap and a bag of chips... I'd think evil thoughts about the killer on that cot, reading a magazine, knowing he will be kept in the best of health just to insure he spends an awfullllll long time to think about it. Well now, THAT is justice.
And if it turns up that someone incarcerated IS innocent, we can turn 'em loose and give them the millions it would have cost to kill him. He'd / She'd deserve it. We can't bring them back.
