Faulty investigation leads to execution

Speaking of Texas and wrongful imprisonment, I just watched Errol Morris' "The Thin Blue Line" the other day. Pretty good stuff, although not nearly as interesting as Morris himself.

 

One gets the very strong impression from that article that the Texas criminal justice system views the possibility of freeing a guilty man to be far worse than the possibility of imprisoning an innocent one.

Compassionate conservatism. Gotta love it.

 

Only problem is, we're not talking about imprisoning an innocent one. We're talking about killing one.

I wonder how the prosecutor would feel if he were put up on murder charges for this.

 

Oh, I know. I was referring more to the part where the guy was locked up for rape and cleared by DNA, but the judge at the Criminal Court of Appeals said he might have used a condom or not ejaculated, thereby justifying keeping him locked up.

I notice we haven't had any death-penalty defenders on this one.

 

My point exactly.

 

And that some people conflate opposition to the death penalty with a love of murderers.

 

To echo Ragu, that article was stunning.
Well reported, well written and impossible to stop reading once you start.
Even though reading it made my stomach and head hurt.

 

I agree. And that's why so many people are OK with waterboarding and stuff like that. It has nothing to do with getting information. It has everything to do with making the "bad guys" suffer.

 

I'm not a fan of the death penalty in general, but I sure as hell am not going to tell someone whose loved one was murdered how they should they feel about it.