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   From: drp@drproctor.com   
      
   On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 17:06:38 GMT, "Ken [NY)"    
   wrote:   
      
   >	If a confessed killer is released from death row because the   
   >judge did not charge the jury correctly, does that not make him   
   >innocent? The presumption, as you pointed out, is innocence.   
      
   Can you show us a case of this ?  I do not recall any...   
      
   >	I still would like to hear about someone who was executed in   
   >the US and later was found to be innocent, let's say, because someone   
   >else confessed and was proven to be the real killer due to new   
   >evidence based on the new confession. If that has happened, why can't   
   >any of you come up with a single case?   
      
           Allegedly,  there are such cases.      I will let the   
   antideath penalty folks cite them,  after they finish flaming me for   
   my death penalty sympathies in some circumstances..   
      
     .     When someone is executed,  the case becomes "Moot".  so formal   
   legal inquiry stops.   OTOH,  I can cite cases where the death penalty   
   woul have been inflicted, "but for" my personal involvement.     In at   
   least one tf these,  the person was actually innocent.      Makes ya   
   wnder.....   
      
   Dr P   
      
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