What percentage of those being punished are actually innocent, do you think?
Doesn't look good.
Chicago man free after 28 years in jail for murder he did not commit
The "law and order" machine is a frightful, frightening pile of mobile, menacing junk.
Remember this guy the next time somebody argues against the death penalty that innocent people are sometimes executed.
Pick any punishment you like, innocent people are sometimes subjected to it.
If the claim is made that capital punishment is unique in that once imposed it cannot be undone remember this guy.
Once any prison sentence is actually carried out it cannot be undone.
And whatever part of it has been completed at any point along the way cannot be undone.
Think of this guy.
And think of him, too, in connection with the fact that no convictions are more thoroughly contested and subjected to scrutiny than death penalty convictions.
But the utter shoddiness of the case against this guy was ignored for decades while he rotted in prison.
Why?
Because he wasn't sentenced to death.
Why does it take a DNA proof of innocence to overturn a conviction based on such flimsy bullshit?
Because that is the way the system works, i.e., because the system sucks from top to bottom.
That is the real disgrace and the real problem.
The death penalty is a distraction.
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