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Nuggin
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06-27-2006 9:53 AM 		Reply to: Message 14 by Malachi-II
05-20-2006 3:45 PM

Re: Reply to anglagard
The danger of an innocent person being executed has 99% (if not 100%) been removed with the benefit of DNA.
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Sadly this is not true. While DNA evidence has helped overturn many false convictions, the Supreme Court has actually said, that proof of innocence is not in and of itself sufficient to suspend or cancel an execution.
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Let me rephrase that -- it doesn't matter that you are innocent, your $20 an hour lawyer screwed up during the appeal process, so you have to die.
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Nuggin
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06-28-2006 2:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 76 by Malachi-II
06-28-2006 1:46 PM

Re: Reply to Nuggin
Sadly, I'm not kidding
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The decision is consistent with, and even cites, the U.S. Supreme Court Herrera decision of 1993 in which even proof of innocence may not be considered in a federal appeals court to overturn a state court conviction. In other words, the Herrera decision allowed the state to execute Herrera without hearing evidence of the man’s innocence.
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