From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com   
      
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   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >Kenny McCormack  wrote:   
   >>Big Mongo   wrote:   
   >   
   >>...   
   >>>This weeks executions include two cases in which there are substantial   
   >>>doubts about whether the person being executed is actually innocent.   
   >   
   >>I should certainly hope there are doubts about the person being innocent.   
   >   
   >In one case, it was recanted testimony.   
      
   I think you may have missed the little joke I was playing in my previous   
   post.  The OP (text) is pretty much just another anti-DP screed, and I have   
   noticed that anti-DP texts are often (nearly always) poorly written, as if   
   they were written by fresh-faced 22 year-olds.   
      
   >That doesn't prove actual innocence. The testimony was given in the   
   >first place in a deal with the prosecution. Since the testimony was   
   >recanted, seems to me that his original deal is null and void and he   
   >should be re-sentenced to whatever crime that was as if there were no   
   >deal, and prosecuted for perjury.   
      
   Agreed on all counts.   
      
   We're in an age where (rhetorical) you can't prove *anything*, so we tend to   
   accept as true things that are far from proven.  Examples include:   
      
       1) The "Believe all women" meme.   
       2) The "Believe anything that raises even the remotest possibility that   
   	someone accused of a crime is innocent" meme.   
      
   >>It'd be really odd, even for Texas, to execute someone where they were sure   
   >>of it.   
   >   
   >You're absolutely right. Good thing there aren't miscarriages of justice   
   >everywhere else.   
      
   Again, a little joke on my part.  Not sure if you caught it or not.   
      
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