I would like to know the source of your statistics, in particular the
23 Illinois men who were "innocent".

These cases are almost NEVER cases of truly innocent men being
convicted, sentenced to death, and then exonerated. Rather, they are
usually cases in which some legal technicality allowed the men to go
free. In every such case, the body of evidence was enough to convince a
jury of reasonable people beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant
was guilty.



--- The Mad Hatter  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> There are three good reasons that the Death Penalty is a dead issue
> in Canada. The Killer M's, David Millgard, Donald Marshall, and Guy
> Paul Morin.
> 
> All three of these gentlemen were convicted of murder, all
> exonerated.
> 
> For those who say it couldn't happen in the USA, I suggest you look
> at Illinois where in the last 10 years 23 inmates who were on death
> row were later found innocent.
> 
> The point of this being (for both Sanders and Cherokee who seem
> unable to find it) is that government is best kept starved and
> inoffensive, so that it cannot interfere with the lives of the
> citizens. All governments should be kept this way - consider Saddam
> Hussein if his government was defanged. He'd end up looking like the
> Stay-Pufft Marshmellow Man.
> 
> Government is not he solution to the problem - it is the problem.
> 
> The only good politician is a dead one (they don't raise taxes).
> 
> The best government is the least government, and the least government
> is no government at all.
> 
> Taxation is theft.
> 
> Why is the U.S. Government so hard on the Mafia? They don't like
> competition.
> 
> 
> 
> The Mad Hatter - Radical to the Bone
> 
> 
> 
> >from a message by col sanders about Re: OT Military:
> > No, I just don't find very many offenses worthy of execution.
> 
> Cherokee wrote:
> 
> >So violating the law is ok as long as it results in something
> >productive?
> 
> 
>

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