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mattskramer said:This might be too much of a tangent to the subject of the thread. It may need its own thread but I just wanted to post this as a challenge/reply for Hobbit.
Check out these cases of Innocence:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=6&did=109
Please look at those people's stories. Really look at their pictures and completely read their stories. Don't just glance over it to just brush it off. Look and think about each human being listed there. After you have done that, post again that you are 100 percent behind the death penalty if you can. I just don't think that you can honestly do it.
By the way, the average number of years between being sentenced to death and exoneration is over 9 years. Wow! Just imagine if you were waiting that long to be executed for a crime that you did not commit.
But then of course you have. . .
O.J. Simpson
Born: July 9, 1947
Football RB
won Heisman Trophy in 1968 at USC; ran for 2,003 yards in NFL in 1973; All-Pro 5 times; MVP in 1973; rushed for 11,236 career yards;
TV analyst and actor after career ended; arrested June 17, 1994 as suspect in double murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her
friend Ronald Goldman; acquitted on Oct. 3, 1995 by a Los Angeles jury in criminal trial but forced to make financial reparations after
losing wrongful death suit.