[Newsbot]

Title: Anthony Ray Hinton, U.S. death row inmate, to be freed after 30 years
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: andyt
Date: 2015-04-03 07:36:39

[andyt]

If you're going to sentence someone to death, the decent thing to do is at least give him proper representation and only use the most stringent finding of evidence. Savages.

[BartSimpson]

andyt andyt:

If you're going to sentence someone to death, the decent thing to do is at least give him proper representation and only use the most stringent finding of evidence. Savages.

The 'savages' were the ones who requested the case be dismissed after they reviewed the facts and found them lacking. This is still a gross injustice and no amount of money is going to compensate this man for what he went through but hopefully the settlement he eventually obtains will serve to deter such injustices from occurring again.

[andyt]

The savages are the ones who only 30 years ago allowed a case like this to proceed, and are still doing same that we'll find out thirty years from now.

The civilized are people like the Indiana governor who commuted all death sentences because he realized they were all on shaky ground. Good to see that not all Americans are savages. Too many are, unfortunately.

[BartSimpson]

andyt andyt:

The civilized are people like the Indiana governor...

...who signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that allows Christians to refuse to participate in or be forced to approve of gay weddings?

I'm happy to see you support him!

[andyt]

Sorry, I always get Illinois and Indiana confused. And this was in 2003, wouldn't be the same governor. You really should know this stuff.

And that Indiana goof is changing the legislation as fast as he can. OOOps.

[BartSimpson]

andyt andyt:

And that Indiana goof is changing the legislation as fast as he can. OOOps.

In that I think he's wrong. The law didn't permit discrimination it simply allowed people to object to being forced to participate in events they didn't want to take part in.

The law worked both ways, too.

In Colorado a Christian bakery went out of business after being ordered to make a wedding cake for a gay wedding. The courts there say the law doesn't give people the choice to refuse to do things for people they object to.

And now a gay owned bakery is being sued under the same law for refusing to bake a cake that says, "God Hates Fags".

The gay bakery is expected to lose in this case.

If Colorado had a law like Indiana's then the gay bakery could claim their rights under the same law.

Instead they'll likely be facing a court order to bake the cake or close their bakery.

Serves them right.

[Jabberwalker]

andyt andyt:

If you're going to sentence someone to death, the decent thing to do is at least give him proper representation and only use the most stringent finding of evidence. Savages.

Kill 'em right away after sentencing and there will be no further problems.

[BartSimpson]

In any case where there's a death penalty on the table the standard of evidence MUST be higher than in a murder case where the death penalty is not on the table.

Where I will abide someone facing life in prison on circumstantial evidence I absolutely and completely abhor the notion of putting someone to death on that same level of evidence.

Why? Because it's far too easy for police and prosecutors to compose a false narrative and then stitch it together into a criminal case. I say that as too many people have been sent to death row based on ginned up BS that was later overthrown upon closer scrutiny.

I support the death penalty but I oppose making a mockery of it by executing innocent people.

[Jabberwalker]

I support the death penalty but I oppose making a mockery of it by executing innocent people.


The last Canadian that was on death row in this country when it was abolished turned out to be innocent, as well. He was a teenager at the time of his conviction and he was railroaded by an incompetent bully cop.

[DanSC]

The death penalty is dumb. I'd rather spend money paying prison guards than paying a law firm to work the sentencing appeal. Sorry lawyers.

[andyt]

Yep. Life keeps them from ever doing anything again, but it can be reversed if not guilty is later determined.

But, there is an advantage to killing them quickly. Once they are dead, nobody will bother to reevalutate the case, so no pesky law suits. And just because they didn't commit this particular crime doesn't mean they didn't do others, so it's no loss to society. Gotta break a few eggs and all. /sarcasm