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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
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.
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This is the same fucking state whose Atty General just appealed a conservative state judge's overthrowing a 10 year sentence against a kid for getting a blow job from his underage girlfriend. The appeal was based on the grounds that, although the judge said the sentence was despicable and the law had since been changed to avoid such a travesty again, the fact remains that the law was the law at the time, and the changes to it are not retroactive.
Stated otherwise, "Keep that nigger in a cell. I don't want no uppity fuckin' Northeners filing papers and writing in the New York Times about what we can and can't do here in Georgia."
Sorry to be coarse. I can't say it more plainly. I hope that prosecutor gets a slow case of stomach cancer.
