Something to think about

"You can release an innocent man from jail, but you can never release an innocent man from the grave."

It always strikes me as odd that the people who think the government isn't qualified to run a medical insurance system is somehow still all-knowing enough to put the correct people to death every single time.

If the fundamental driving principle behind modern conservatism is that most government is a horrible, doomed-to-fail albatross that needs to be fought and starved out of existence, how can they justify handing over the keys to the executioner's room to the very government they loathe?

Gov. Perry (Texas) then took his reaction into a realm that perhaps only he understands. He stated that even without proof of arson there was “clear and convincing, overwhelming evidence” in the court records he reviewed about the Willingham case which convinced him that “he [Willingham] was in fact the murderer of his [three] children.”
There was absolutely no evidence that the Willingham children had been beaten, stabbed, choked, or shot to death. All the evidence pointed to the fact that the children died by fire. The only issue in dispute from the very beginning was whether the fire that killed them was caused by arson.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

in Texas another murder convict has lost his appeal against the death penalty even though he has now proved that the prosecutor at his trial was having an affair with the judge. He will soon be executed – by lethal injection.

In Burdine's case, the jurors were urged to order his execution by a prosecutor who told them that sending this man to prison would be like setting a kid loose in a candy store. (Burdine is gay) In arguing for the death penalty, prosecutors told jurors
"sending a homosexual to the penitentiary certainly isn't a very bad punishment for a homosexual."