Deadly Injustice - USA

July 2007
Americans joke that the death penalty is known as capital punishment because only those without capital get punished. Virtually all the people on death row are poor.
George Farland is waiting to die for a crime he claims he didn't commit. His state-appointed lawyer spent just a few hours preparing for the trial. At key moments in court, he fell asleep. "He would snore so hard he almost fell off the chair". The judge refused to wake him, saying there was nothing in the constitution that required lawyers to be awake. In Louisiana, public defenders are funded solely through parking fines. "It's become so ridiculous that one of the public defenders invested in a speed gun", states lawyer Richard Bourke. Now some death row inmates are turning to law students in a bid to overturn their convictions.

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[sarabower1]

Very good lawyers wouldn't be court appointed. Very simple

[kimmykola]

Keep up the good work, eliminate these miscreants.

[Butcherboytroy]

Horrifying total inept system.It's peoples lives they are playing with.Execution is not justice it's revenge.Revenge is not just in any circumstance.Punish the guilty by all means but don't put them down like some animal at a vet.

[hemlock91]

is the USA a third world country??? It appears that way,to this outsider.

[CCRider100]

Ha ha. The Supreme court states that all defendents are entitled to a lawyer, but it doesn't say they have to be awake.

[wwwtotalitaerde]

The German BND is the renamed 3rd Reich GESTAPO.The BND had organized the delegate Scheuermann of our county to visit or home.To allow him to personally experience how my brother and our parents had been tortured.The BND continued to torture my brother.He was assassinated on July 11th2009.Half a year after the assassination of my brother the CDU delegate Mappus from our district town Pforzheim was made prime minister of the German land of Baden Würtemberg

The CDU is the ruling party in Germany

[melsbeautytells]

in Australia we don't have the death penalty. I think prison is worse than death. I think every prisoner should sit in prison and suffer for what they have done. It eats them up inside. Some prisoners see death as a way out. But no man should be on death row without a good lawyer and without forensic evidence. That case would be aquitted in Australia, i think he may have been found guilty due to race :(

[ingareinar007]

death penalty shows the weakness om many socoiety and people. It belongs nowere. we are in w2