No Surprise: Texas Executed Another Innocent Man

[Wezil]

We had the debate about Sharon Keller's actions.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=170753

[DirtyMartini]

My sympathy/patience for people opposed to the death penalty winds dangerously low. What penalty is appropriate for a lifer who kills in prison? If you say "death," then we are only negotiating about the threshhold of the penalty, not the act. If you say life, then you are wasting my tax money (and yours, if you pay it) to maintain a useless husk of a human who will never contribute anything to society.

I don't have any problem with death as a penalty in theory. It's the inperfect system that decides who lives and dies that makes it a no-go. Sufficient safeguards cannot be put in place to prevent the possibility of an innocent person being executed. Better 10,000 guilty men should live out their lives in prison than one innocent man should be executed.

[BlackCat]

We had the debate about Sharon Keller's actions.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=170753

Well, I can't say that I can remember that thread, but why complain over a reminder of how efficient texan legal system is ?

[SlowwHand]

That's not technically a fact. It's just an extremely likely possibility.

He says it's not the first and won't be the last. Like he's some all-seeing, all-knowing entity, when in fact, it's just mouthy opinion.
He's entitled to his opinion. Not that I give a rat's ass about his opinion.
I would caution you about coming to live in Texas, if you are unable to control your big mouth, Che. I'm serious.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Wow, that sounds like a really free space. Where you may get hurt for expressing your freedom of speech .

Btw, Sloww. I know Commies from Texas, so shove your macho talk.

[SlowwHand]

Suck me, Imran. No one rattled your cage. To address your point, I didn't say a damned thing about his being a communist. I said his big mouth. He constantly runs his mouth. He can do that in fromt of a monitor, but I'm trying to be a nice guy and tell him to watch his mouth if he's here. Personally, I don't care if someone steals his bicycle again.

[Wezil]

Well, I can't say that I can remember that thread, but why complain over a reminder of how efficient texan legal system is ?

The list of posters pwnd in that thread was impressive.

[Ben Kenobi]

Btw, Sloww. I know Commies from Texas, so shove your macho talk.

And I know conservatives in Canada. What's your point?

Holding your tongue is a seriously good idea.

[SlowwHand]

Better than having it cut out, at least from his perspective.

[FrostyBoy]

****. well I won't be moving to Texas

[chequita guevara]

Bleeding hearts make those estimates in an effort to get rid of the penalty. How does anyone know how long the person will live if he is not executed? If we keep that estimated time short, it costs more to put him on death row. If we make that time long, then death is the bargain.

They don't make "estimates." They compare costs. It costs something on the order of 2.3 million dollars to put someone to death, after all the legal costs from all the appeals, etc., is figured in. The cost to keep someone in prison for life is less.

[chequita guevara]

He says it's not the first and won't be the last. Like he's some all-seeing, all-knowing entity, when in fact, it's just mouthy opinion.
He's entitled to his opinion. Not that I give a rat's ass about his opinion.
I would caution you about coming to live in Texas, if you are unable to control your big mouth, Che. I'm serious.

Aww, your widdle feelings hurt, Slowwy? Maybe you should stop being such a pompous ass and trying to be such a damn know it all when you're nearly as inaccurate as BenK. And maybe you shouldn't be such a damn hypocrite.

And I can defend myself, Slowwy.

[dannubis]

Ah, another case of collateral damage. What is it with Texas and their fixation with killing people ?

[Japher]

I think that in Texas you are guilty be default, damn rebels.

[Dauphin]

Better to execute an innocent man than let a guilty one go free.