Still think Texas has never executed anyone who was innocent?

That omelette doesn't exist in a vacuum, either.

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So there's inevitably a yolk finish?

 

Not nearly as reasonable as the amount of doubt in the case of California vs. O.J. Simpson....

 

Yeah, Lot is a pimp, a drunk, and incestuous.

 

Again, the research is squirrelly (i.e., the results are terribly mixed), but a good chunk of that literature suggests that life without parole doesn't have as strong an effect as does an on-the-books-and-applied death penalty. But I certainly see what you're getting at. At some point, the expected-number-of-innocents-killed curves would have to intersect, wouldn't they?

 

Right on the grille.

 

A more civil response than Piotr's post deserved.

 

Oh christ, get out the coloring books, look who has finally arrived.

 

Way, way more civil than what was deserved.

 

And that wasn't even a death penalty case.

 

Wanna borrow some crayons? I think we still have some in my kid's closet. Just remember to draw with them rather than eat them this time.

 

"Stalker, moving the goalposts, Big Ben rules, Stillers da best, Troy!!!!....."

Now that we have exhausted your entire playbook, hopefully you will go away quietly.....