Good. That means we don’t have to worry about people being executed when DNA would exonerate them.
Then let’s improve its implementation.
Then it seems to me that the fault lies with their lawyers who managed to exhaust the appeals process without actually using the evidence that would prove their client not guilty.
Ok. Where shall we start? The lack of money and manpower for public defenders? The fact that prosecutors sometimes don’t share evidence? The systemic bias against minority and poor defendants? The tactics police use to coerce confessions from defendants? Jailhouse snitches who make up confessions to reduce their own sentences? Shaky eyewitness testimony? The way prosecutors and politicians are hellbent on winning convictions and biased against revisiting them? I’m probably forgetting some stuff, but if you can think of ways to address those you’ll improve the entire criminal justice system substantially.
I am sure lawyer error isn’t uncommon, and in part that reflects the problems public defenders face. But the legal system is supposed to identify those errors and sometimes it doesn’t.
I’d be willing to bet quite a lot on which option you’d both take if convicted of murder and given a choice of a life sentence or death sentence.
Sure. And Kevin Bacon wasn’t in Footloose.
I believe that death is horrible. That being said, I think that there are some crimes/people that demand the death penalty.