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For those of you who champion the death penalty, this may be a timely report...

"...There was no crusading journalist, no nonprofit group taking up his cause, just Inmate 95A2646, a high-school dropout from Brooklyn, alone in a computerless prison law library...

...He was 22, a father of three...

Three witnesses had implicated him in the midday shooting of Mr. Pollack as the rabbi collected rent in a building at 126 Graham Avenue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn..

Mr. Collins walked out of prison on June 9, to an emotional welcome from his family...

But some things haven't changed.

Mr. Collins is back in a law library.

His attorney, Mr. Rudin, has hired him...

Mr. Collins is first concentrating on his own case.

He has filed "notices of claim" announcing an intention to sue the city and state for $60 million."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575566201554448476.html

New York State has no death penalty.

Read this account, then ask yourself what would have happened had Mr. Collins been executed for a murder he did not commit.
 
If death penalty advocates had their way, it is doubtful this innocent man would have had the chance to clear himself.
 
Just in answer to the title, there is an old story about the canadian mounted police enforcing their laws against murder. It seems the Inuit Indians would take the old and infirm out and leave them in the snow. They did it respectfully, but it was an age old tradition for dealing with members who could no longer help support the tribe.

A CMP arrested a man for murder, and the man was sentenced to life in prison. After some members of the tribe visited the man, there was a flood of confessions of the same type of murder.

It seems life in prison was easier, warmer, and more comfortable than life in the inuit tribe. So they confessed to murder to get a place in prison.
 
WinterBorn said:
Just in answer to the title, there is an old story about the canadian mounted police enforcing their laws against murder. It seems the Inuit Indians would take the old and infirm out and leave them in the snow. They did it respectfully, but it was an age old tradition for dealing with members who could no longer help support the tribe.

A CMP arrested a man for murder, and the man was sentenced to life in prison. After some members of the tribe visited the man, there was a flood of confessions of the same type of murder.

It seems life in prison was easier, warmer, and more comfortable than life in the inuit tribe. So they confessed to murder to get a place in prison.
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Could that be an apocryphal story?
 
Executed But Possibly Innocent

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executed-possibly-innocent

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Mojo said:
For those of you who champion the death penalty, this may be a timely report...

"...There was no crusading journalist, no nonprofit group taking up his cause, just Inmate 95A2646, a high-school dropout from Brooklyn, alone in a computerless prison law library...

...He was 22, a father of three...

Three witnesses had implicated him in the midday shooting of Mr. Pollack as the rabbi collected rent in a building at 126 Graham Avenue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn..

Mr. Collins walked out of prison on June 9, to an emotional welcome from his family...

But some things haven't changed.

Mr. Collins is back in a law library.

His attorney, Mr. Rudin, has hired him...

Mr. Collins is first concentrating on his own case.

He has filed "notices of claim" announcing an intention to sue the city and state for $60 million."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575566201554448476.html

New York State has no death penalty.

Read this account, then ask yourself what would have happened had Mr. Collins been executed for a murder he did not commit.
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A simple solution would be if prosecutors are found guilty of having hid evidence or, as the article notes, threatened witnesses they should be obliged to do the time the innocent victim would have served.

Of course, that will never happen. We are but slaves to authority.

Merry Christmas and Good Luck!
 
apple0154 said:
A simple solution would be if prosecutors are found guilty of having hid evidence or, as the article notes, threatened witnesses they should be obliged to do the time the innocent victim would have served.

Of course, that will never happen. We are but slaves to authority.

Merry Christmas and Good Luck!
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Well, in one notable case a prosecutor was charged with criminal contempt of court, and served one day in jail. He was disbarred, too. He was sued in a civil action and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, which the administrator denied.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246281,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008May28/0,4670,DukeLacrosse,00.html
 
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