As Doubts About Guilt Rise, So Does Backing for Death Penalty

[drakonyx]

An opinion piece in The Washington Post makes an interesting point about the death penalty: 64% of us now favor it, compared to just 20% who are opposed.

But here's the kicker: In 1967, only 40% supported it - and a larger percentage opposed it. Let the implications of that sink in for just a moment. Over the past few years, case after case has surfaced in which inmates have been exonerated of serious crimes. They've been freed from death row or life prison sentences when DNA evidence has surfaced that clears them or, in many cases, implicates someone else entirely.

Support for the death penalty has increased as evidence about the dangers of wrongful conviction has mounted. What does this say about our humanity? Are the evangelical Christians right about our species? Are we really just a wicked, sinful race that doesn't care about right and wrong?

http://www.theprovocation.net/2011/09/as-doubts-about-guilt-rise-so-does.html

[wellst0nev0ter]

1. Oh Those Were Just Mulligans

But by golly with today's technology and the fact we are more in a more enlightened policing age, you can be darn sure we got the right criminals! I mean, haven't you watched CSI? :sarcasm:

[ret5hd]

2. the evangelical xtians ARE correct...about themselves.

[tanyev]

3. We got to kill them off quicker, see, so we don't find out that they're innocent.

:sarcasm: