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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop - A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing a police officer in 1989, even though the case against him has withered in recent years as most of the key witnesses at his trial have recanted and in some cases said they lied under pressure from police.
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I have never understood why states that seek to impose the death penalty also seem to insist on its imposition with particular fervor where the convicted has plausible claims of innocence or of substantial procedural error.
Why do these states not instead focus their resources on the cases in which guilt is clear and the trial was fair? Surely there are a few of those as well.
