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1/31/2013 6:20:25 PM
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This is why I'm against the death penalty
[quote]Douglas Prade walked out of an Ohio prison this afternoon after more than a decade behind bars.
The former Akron police captain convicted of the 1997 murder of his ex-wife was set free at 4:26 p.m. today from the Madison Correctional Institution in London, Ohio, said Summit County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Brad Gessner
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"Based on the review of the conclusive Y-STR DNA test results and the evidence from the 1998 trial, the Court is firmly convinced that no reasonable juror would convict the defendant for the crime of aggravated murder with a firearm,"[/quote]
While his sentence wasn't the death penalty, but it was life in prison. Some people think that the death penalty is justified, I think it's safe to err on the side of caution to make sure we don't execute any innocent people.
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3 RepliesI'm against the death penalty because it's expensive as all -blam!- and is applied unevenly with minorities being targeted more than whites. And all of this is on top of the fact that there are some prosecutors who like to speed it along for a quick resolution, no matter how factually wrong it is. Case in point: Texas executing a retard. It's not mentioned here, but it was in my local paper yesterday, but there was no weapon found in his wife's murder, no witnesses, nothing. But, there's a but Mad Max, I am for the death penalty under certain circumstances. People like Adam Lanza should have been executed post haste. Clearly guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt, he will either spend his life in a mental ward or in a jail cell. Save all of our time, and money, and kill the mother-blam!-er.
