Interview with a former death row inmate

A candid conversation

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• JoeBirkett
• Roland
• Burris
• JimRyan
• DeathPenalty

[305Wasabi]

wha does candid mean?

[injusticexposed]

@305Wasabi - look it up

[maimunamuna]

u was supporting u are family by killing prisoner

sgy i wont work that job even if is million dollar

[injusticexposed]

what? I don't understand what you are trying to say

[csdk44444]

It makes me sick that these people can sentence innocent people to death. They couldn't have had the evidence or he would be guilty. Thank God he wasn't executed before being proven innocent.

[ultradumbass]

@ploetzlich30 would you rather lose your entire life to the american system? because that is what happens in most us states, ironically 50 years ago the usa was one of the more progressive countries in rehabilitating prisoners now it is one of few countries left with death sentences and mandatory life. in canada up until 1961 all murders carried mandatory death by hanging then from 1961-1962 it became discretionary before going on moratorium, now the maximum penalty allowed is 25 years to life.

[ploetzlich30]

@ultradumbass, sorry, but you don´t seem to understand how important EACH AND EVERY part of the human life is. you can NOT get 17 years back only because you´re "young"! if you goin with 20, you´re back with 37, you then missed almost the most important part in your life! please rethink what you wrote, and replay!

[ultradumbass]

@ploetzlich30 i doubt it, americans are like the chinese and are known to not treat society right. in canada a law actually made anyone wrongfully arrested and spending more than a year automatically gets compensation depending on how long the person spent, in the usa a lifer will go bankrupt coming out and not be compensated, some have spent 500,000 out of their own pocket to go free, harold bright a man in louisiana spent 30 years and the result is he must pay 50 dollars for release papers.

[ultradumbass]

@jokester859 3% of people are innocent, about 30,000 people receive a life sentence in the usa alone, which means nearly a thousand innocent lifers are going away a year and very few of those innocent are ever coming back out, here canada has no life without parole, it just has life which makes a sentence indefinite and over 90% of lifers are released within 17 years which means if you're innocent you'll likely still be young upon release and can get most of your old life back eventually.

[ultradumbass]

@csdk44444 he can be considered lucky he got out as fast as he did, very few innocent people including lifers are ever released even if they are innocent and the few that do i read spend 37 years until proven innocent, an average lifer is 28 upon sentencing which means they are going to be over 65 before most come out, by then your life is ruined and there is nothing to look forward too so at that point you may as well have been killed than go through a 37 year long ordeal.

[TheDisenherited1]

candid.. is like a revealing conversation

[CzechDetectingChap]

@maimunamuna dude, speaka tha Englisha!

[khbkb]

Newly available DNA testing excluded Cruz and Hernandez as the child's rapists and linked Dugan to the crime. Even so, prosecutors refused to drop the case.

At trial, Cruz was represented by a team of four lawyers, including Marshall. During the trial, a police officer admitted that he had lied under oath in relation to testimony about Cruz's purported statement. After hearing all of the prosecution's evidence, the trial judge directed a verdict of not guilty.

[zrah1092]

@maimunamuna Velcome 2 AmeriKa

[sweetkittytwine]

@dlr1241 i agree. he is likely not telling 100 % truth. & i bet he was living in a crime ridden life to have been associated with such crime. There is always more to know. Not like he was a straight laced college boy going off to med school.