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Personally, I think the death penalty should only be used when there is 99.9% degree of certainty.
Like if DNA evidence is there to, without a doubt, prove the guilt. Don't know enough about this case to comment, but I have been on the wrong side of the law as a youth and know from experience that people get 'processed' and sentenced with very little thought to whether they are indeed guilty or not...and heaven help you if you're too poor to afford a lawyer. The person they appoint you will never see you again but they'll see the judge and prosecutor at their kid's graduation ceremony or at the private golf club that weekend.
Personally, I think the death penalty should only be used when there is 99.9% degree of certainty.
Like if DNA evidence is there to, without a doubt, prove the guilt. Don't know enough about this case to comment, but I have been on the wrong side of the law as a youth and know from experience that people get 'processed' and sentenced with very little thought to whether they are indeed guilty or not.
...and heaven help you if you're too poor to afford a lawyer.
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The courts assign legal representation for those whom cannot afford it.
How many appeals to the Supreme Court are enough to satisfy people that the conviction was a fair one? Davis had two......to SCOTUS, multiple others prior.
They will never "get it". They don't get that they could one day be the wrongly accused and falsely convicted. Or their son. Or their daughter. Or their brother....
The scales of justice will never be fully balanced and she is certainly not blind. For every Casey Anthony or OJ Simpson that "gets away with it" there are others who are on the opposite end of that equation who didn't do it. The idea that so many in this country are "OK" with some innocent ones being executed along with the truly guilty is very primitive and uncivilized.
34 state witnesses. Years of appeals, two to the SCOTUS. Davis had more opportunities of justice than those he murdered and more than most on death row. I doubt Davis gave much thought to the family members of those he executed before he pulled the trigger.
lifelongMogal"How many appeals to the Supreme Court are enough to satisfy people that the conviction was a fair one? Davis had two."
Unlike your question inferring an answer, I render that decision ABOVE human capabilities. Lower courts in the south are often political hacks, so the initial appeal I have NO confidence in.
lifelongMogal"How many appeals to the Supreme Court are enough to satisfy people that the conviction was a fair one? Davis had two."
Unlike your question inferring an answer, I render that decision ABOVE human capabilities. Lower courts in the south are often political hacks, so the initial appeal I have NO confidence in.
In this country we don't try people in the court of public opinion, we have courts. The courts were satisfied several times and the highest court in the land was satisfied the evidence was overwhelming and cases tried correctly, not once, but twice. So, really YOUR confidence doesn't weigh in, nor does my opinion. I'm just sick of the blatant lies about his innocence and injustice.
His victims suffered injustice. Davis had more opportunities at justice than most.
"The idea that so many in this country are "OK" with some innocent ones being executed along with the truly guilty is very primitive and uncivilized."
Amen.
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