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Originally Posted by powergrid";p="
I wonder how many people over the course of 50 years have been wrongly executed. I wonder collectively how much in taxes they paid up until their deaths. Probably alot of money.
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You will never know, executed people are per definition considered guilty, no new evidence are considered after an execution no matter how strong.
http://www.justicedenied.org/executed.htm
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The rebuttal is fatuous partly because of its circular logic. There is no judicial mechanism for review of guilt or pronouncement of innocence after an execution. The courts are done with it. Therefore, it should go without saying that no court has announced that an executed person was innocent, since American courts by definition do not make such findings.
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The system needs to change so that innocently executed can be identified. I considered all innocently executed to be murder victims and these murder cases should be dealt with the same way as all other murder cases,
including punishment. Put an innocent on Death Row and you should be sent there yourself, that would be an improvement. Further, put an innocent in prison and you should serve the same time as they did before being released. Automatic life sentences for those whose victims die in prison, even if they are killed by another prisoner the first day. Don't prosecute if you
think that they are guilty, prosecute if you
know.
This should illustrate just how strongly I feel that people should be protected from being punished for something they are innocent of.