"The innocent may be wrongly executed.
Since the DP was reinstated in 1976, 82 inmates have been freed from Death Row. That's 1 Death Row inmate found to be wrongfully convicted for every 7 executed."
This is the most important part for me. The point is there was doubt in A LOT of people's minds about today's case, yet they went through with it anyway. Their only evidence were witnesses, 9 of them, 7 of whom retracted the statements they made 20 years ago. Other than 2 people, there was literally nothing else, no fingerprints, video's, nothing, yet they still went through with it. That's disgusting.
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Originally posted by £100
Benjamin Franklin: "It is better [one hundred] guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer."
Funny how Republicans don't listen much to Benjamin Franklin while at the same time claiming to love the Founding Fathers and the Constitution.
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This exactly