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Old 12-16-2004, 01:27 PM
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Yes. Luckily for him he was sentenced to life, not death. What about other people who's cases parallel his, but were sentenced to death instead? Would it really surprise you?
Would it surprise me if it happened in 1930? No. But I'm talking about the modern application of the death penalty. To answer your question, no I don't think it's ever been carried out incorrectly. There are millions of people who are against it, in the US and around the world. I find it difficult to believe that millions of people pouring over tons of cases couldn't come up with one single person who was sentenced incorrectly.

Hurricane was helped by people looking into his case, but additionally, when someone is sentenced to death the case gets even more scrutiny. Dozens of judges eyes pour over the same evidence. This is why I find it highly difficult to believe it has happened or even come close (modern times). Between that and DNA evidence.
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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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