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   From: erj66@xs4all.nl   
      
   On 19-12-2003 18:22, in article o4c6uvs6i1u26h3iji0mav07pig7s5nmum@4ax.com,   
   "Ken [NY)"  wrote:   
      
   > cheidegger said death-row proponents contend that roughly 90 former   
   > death-row inmates have been proved to be innocent. But they have not   
   > been proved innocent, he said. Instead, they are "people whose   
   > convictions have been reversed and who, for various reasons, have not   
   > been successfully reprosecuted. That means the evidence available at   
   > the time of retrial and admissible by the rules of evidence was not   
   > sufficient to convince a jury unanimously of guilt beyond a reasonable   
   > doubt. Either the jury hung, it returned a verdict of not guilty, or   
   > the prosecutor decided not to proceed.   
      
      
   In other words...bring in the guilty bastard. We'll give him a trial and   
   then string him up!   
      
   EJ   
      
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