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Old 12-16-2004, 01:00 PM
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Default I definitely believe it hasn't come close to happening
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Then I would agree totally, but it hasn't and it hasn't come close to happening.
What hasn't come close to happening? People being wrongly convicted of a capital offense and dying as a result? You don't honestly believe this has not come close to happening. What if Hurrican Carter had been sentenced to death?
In the rare case someone was found guilty and sentenced to death it was overturned in appeal. You say "what happened if," but that's the point. It didn't happen. He didn't get the death sentence and in fact his case was eventually overturned.
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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.


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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
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