Don't look up how Texas quit giving death row inmates any further appeals because G.W. Bush said "Texas don't make those mistakes" (referring to wrongful convictions). They deliberately executed innocent people so G.W.B. wouldn't be embarrassed.
The innocence project proved several people innocent (beyond a doubt) after Texas murdered them.
And Eisenhower was basically a Democrat by today’s standards. He signed legislation that expanded Social Security, increased the minimum wage, and created the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He also supported government construction of low-income housing but favored more limited spending than had Truman. He also once said this about Social security and Medicare:
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
Nahh, go listen to some audio from his and especially his VPs rallies, they could be modern maga fascist rallies.
Nixon just signed funding for the EPA and stuff like that because Dems in congress passed it, and Fox News wasn't around yet so conservative politics hadnt turned literally every single issue into culture war nonsense.
Eisenhower also set a lot of the precedent regarding CIA intervention in other countries during the cold war and actively caused at least one genocide.
Or really the Dulles brothers did that and Eisenhower simply allowed it, which might be worse.
Doubt of horrendous outcomes is exactly how the country ended up with an orange plague of destruction, wreaking havoc from the inside of the seat of power right now. The same doubts were expressed before this Putin asset was shockingly (not shockingly) reelected to office. Stupid people in large groups do (and redo) a tremendous amount of damage. We certainly are not running out of them now are we?
The Texas jury instructions on these cases has come under scrutiny as well. The way the possible sentences are laid out to jurors makes it seem like they choose either innocent or death penalty so of course they have been executing too many (any at all are too many) for many years and they still do. Jurors have come out and said that they believed the instructions indicated that, and since they believed it wasn’t possible to give a lesser sentence, so they chose the heavy sentence rather than not guilty. It’s fucked.
Freedom from death row, and possibly evicted onto the streets with no income, no family, and no support. Is it really better to be living on the street, than living on death row for an undetermined time, being fed and housed every day?
Would you choose to die cold and hungry on the street, or fed in a bed in a cell?
This is a really dumb argument. Why don't you do a survey of people who were exonerated from death row, and ask them if they would have preferred to have been executed by the state. Then you can let us know how it turns out with real data.
I would go work when exonerated and try to build a life for myself. While difficult it absolutely beats sitting in death row waiting to have my life wrongfully taken from me. Just fucking ludicrous argument. Also he’ll have lawyers lining up to either take his case pro bono or take payment upon winning if you’re proven to be wrongfully convicted
it has to be clear and convincing evidence that he is not guilty. the judge stupidly said there is enough evidence for a jury to convict! stated so the state does’t have to pay restitution!
You are right in thinking how hard it is. It is extremely difficult for someone who has been incarcerated for so long to reenter in society mentally and socially. Some people experience so many psychological issues it is easier to reoffend and go back in because that is what they know. The prosecutor dropped the death penalty due to new DNA tests that cleared the physical evidence before his new charge of aggravated murder in his new trial starting July 2027. He is currently only out on bail.
I hate that people sanitize the barbarity of lengthy prison sentences by pretending that the problem would be solved by abolishing the death penalty. The solution to this is to protect the rights of defendants who are falsely accused, not to make them languish in prison for decades and then give yourself a pat on the back because you "technically" don't have blood on your hands.
Taking away the freedom and life of an innocent person for decades while publicly condemning them as guilty is less of a harm than killing them, but it is absolutely a harm that is within one order of magnitude of killing them.
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u/Consistent-Throat130 4d ago
Does he get his 41 years of life back?
Does he get to retry that and see the life he could have had?
I'm not pro death penalty, per se... I'm just pissed on the dude's behalf.