Quote:Actually, that's not what you said. You said, "Either you are stupid, or you are wrong, take your pick."

 

That is pretty much an indictment of what your feelings are. So, backpeddling and an attempted re-phrase of the question in order to make me sound wrong won't work. Your own words clearly indicate what you meant. 

 

Again, You, like your counterpart, love to avoid this question like the plague: Which executed offenders were later proven innocent?

 

Continue to spin. Continue to put this on me. I am fine with that. Until you give one single name, I will remain unimpressed.

Yeah, I said that because you'd have to be stupid to think the system is perfect. If the system isn't perfect then you are wrong.


Cameron Todd Willingham was executed February, 2004, for murdering his three young children by arson. Nationally known fire investigator Gerald Hurst reviewed the case documents, including the trial transcriptions an an hour-long videotape of the aftermath of the fire scene and said in December 2004 that "There's nothing to suggest to any reasonable arson investigator that this was an arson fire. It was just a fire."


Joseph Roger O'Dell III, executed in Virginia in 1997 for a rape and murder, the case's evidence was destroyed in 1997 after an attorney argued against the idea of posthumously exonerating O'Dell because "it would be shouted from the rooftops that ... Virginia executed an innocent man."


Johnny Garrett of Texas was executed February, 1992, for allegedly raping and murdering a nun. In 2004 cold-case DNA testing identified Leoncio Rueda as the rapist and murderer of another elderly victim killed four whom the prosecutor and police were certain was killed by the same assailant even at the time of the nun's murder.


Joe Arridy of Colorado was posthumously granted a pardon in 2011.


Chipita Rodriguez was posthumously exonerated 122 years after her death.


You've already denied Jesse Tafero as proof - who's co-defendant's conviction was overturned because it was shown that a third person committed the murders he was executed for - so I can't imagine you'll do anything other than remain willfully ignorant so that you can continue your moronic defense of capital punishment.



Also, for someone who toots their own "patriotic horn" so much, you seem awfully intent of forcing innocence to be proven rather than guilt.

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