Oddbean new post about login | logout Gm. One of the reasons I can never support the death penalty is because of cases like this. #MarcellusWilliams will be executed in 12 hours for a crime he didn’t commit. St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell filed the motion to free him because the DNA Evidence says he’s innocent. Despite this, despite over a million signatures on the petition they are going to murder him anyway. https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/call-gov-parson-to-stop-the-sept-24-execution-of-marcellus-williams-417-373-3400/
Brazil effectively abolished the death penalty in the 19th century when the king D. Pedro II denied pardon to a slave that was posthumously proven innocent. He was so horrified to have sent an innocent man to his death that he pardoned every single death penalty in Brazil afterwards. Death penalty was officially abolished by the first republican constitution, several decades later
I understand why some people want the death penalty but it’s impossible to not have innocent people also die. One innocent death is one too many for me so I can never support the death penalty.
100%, and that would be if wrongful convictions and corruptionwere rare. They are sadly very much not.
“When DNA evidence proves innocence, capital punishment is not justice — it is murder.” nostr:nevent1qqstjq57l2nzhal5kln98dfccrt5yveupjj2exnurpehpylplmn5c6cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygpemwf33keq9ujsefz7t7greajgej6rw7g7jqnlu5csr7ktw9z26upsgqqqqqqs705yj5
Did he end up getting murdered on schedule, or did the justice system grow a soul?