By the Equal Justice Initiative’s count, one person is exonerated for every eight people executed. And not everyone who is innocent is exonerated.
That's an extraordiarily high failure-of-justice rate.
Objection to the death penalty need not reflect a view that there are not people who deserve to die. It does reflect the reality that the penalty has not, and by all appearances can not be applied with any level of fairness. Prosecutors, AGs, and governors have simply shown themselves not willing or able to apply that sanction with the equity and seriousness it entails.
Time to take that toy away.
Why are honest poor people still starving?
As long as we're asking questions that are embarrassing to modern society, we should ask the ones that matter the most.
> Why are honest poor people still starving?
Why are honest poor people still dying of obesity and diabetes?
I think justice in many cases has turned into get revenge. Plus many proscuters do not want to admit they were wrong due to fear.
Earlier this year, Wesley Bell, the current prosecutor of the district where Williams was convicted, filed a 63-page motion in court seeking to set aside Williams’s death sentence on grounds of possible innocence, and later offered Williams a deal that would have commuted his sentence to life without parole.
From TFA.
Missouri's AG rejected the deal.