Texas Issues Apology For Executing Innocent Man

Texas Issues Apology For Executing An Innocent Man

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News & Politics

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• Texas
• Innocent
• Death Penalty
• Capital Punishment
• Lee Camp
• Willingham
• troy davis
• execution
• Cameron
• Moment of Clarity

[stebaw]

no innocent person has ever been executed in the us since the reintroduction of capital punishment. end of story.. they get what they deserve

[LeeCamp2]

@stebaw You're very very sadly wrong. Ignorance is bliss.

[Weasler455]

@LeeCamp2 NAME all the "innocent" people who have been executed. And I'll save you a lot of work - when I say "innocent", I don't mean "improper evidence". I mean someone who truly did not commit the crime.

[LeeCamp2]

@Weasler455 Cameron Todd Willingham for one. And how about you name all the people who have been executed and were guilty? Oh, you can't name them? You don't carry that info in your wallet? What are the odds?!

[DATruth4sho]

Personally, I think the death penalty makes some sense. If the person did something horrible and there is absolutely no doubt he was the person who did the crime, then kill 'em. I'm sure they'd rather be put to death than serve a life sentence anyhow.

[LeeCamp2]

Well DATruth4sho, that's a lovely perfect world you describe - in which we're always sure the person committed the crime. Instead what we've got is an egregious system in which innocent people are killed. Furthermore, it's a racist system in which you're much more likely to be executed if you murder a white person than a black person. So, in this real world, the only answer is to end the death penalty.

[aj19bcx]

before someone can be executed make the prosecutor sign his life as collateral, then maybe they won't execute people so readily

[InuKun2008]

@Weasler455 Carlos DeLuna, whom Texas executed in 1989 and was found afterwards innocent given the rush to gather evidence whilst overlooking a key individual who admitted he was the murderer instead of DeLuna, but Corpus Christi police ignored the lead. In addition to Cameron Todd Willingham whom the state was preparing to exonerate in 2009 when Perry replaced the commission members (made up of experts in fire damage) with political supporters of his in order to turn the heat off.

[toekneeeyeoweme]

@stebaw Troll much?

[xephyr1000]

FUCK that asshole of a state, Texas and the shithead Gorvernor Rick Perry who KNOWINGLY executed an innocent man just because he wanted to have the "appearance" of being tough on crime. The state of Texas should succeed from the Union so they no longer have any influence on the rest of the Country with all their retarded school books with absolutely ZERO realworld value (i.e. "Of Pandas and People") and abstinence Only sex ed. ETC.

[akiskem]

We don't even try to understand the causes of so-called "problematic behaviours" and then fix them, instead we kill the victims of sub-cultures, rationalising it by saying "This behaviour is genetic" like there is such a gene that makes you a killer, so we might as well not spend resources trying to fix things. Like people behave totally on their own, ignoring all environmental stimuli...

[Tanfeliz]

@Weasler455 There were so many people on death row in Illinois that were later PROVEN innocent that the Republican Governor put a hold on all executions. That trashed his career because there are a lot of people who think the way you do.

Ten years later in 2011 the death penalty has been repealed in Illinois altogether, because there were way too many innocent people BEING KILLED.

[aryanangel73]

ya we all want to be tough on crime but the fact is willinham did not do it. i used to be a big supporter of the death penalty but i have to change my mind now.the fact is a innocent man was put to death and we let it happen,now we can put on our blinders or we can do away with it.an argument must be made for both sides.how do you argue the fact that a innocent man was put to death? i really wish i could think of one but i cant,so my mind is changed.

[liliodine]

@Egendomlighet Well, it's how it's SUPPOSED to work. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people on death row, and in prison, who did not commit the crimes they were convicted of. Have you read John Grisham's book The Innocent Man? It has several examples of cases who were convicted of crimes they didn't commit. I believe they were all from the same area in Oklahoma. I could be wrong about that, but I think it involved the same prosecuting attorney, who was corrupt.

[conservthestate]

i believe they should give them all an interview with a trained detective. they are trained in micro analysys. they can see how he acts when talking. and they should have atleast two witnesses as well

[TheDisenherited1]

@itscontagiousx3 i like it

[oiyabastard]

@stebaw shut up dummy how do you know?