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Several good points are brought up in the previous post.
One is the swiftness of justice, or the idea that it should be swift (and fair). That hasn't been the case here, although I don't know if that should have any bearing on the punishment. It is a factor though.
The other is whether a crime is conclusively proven. I'm not saying for a moment that he is innocent, but he does claim that he is, and this (as far as I know) is not a case proven by DNA, video, or anything similarly irrefutable.
I can't quote exact statistics but I know that a number of people found guilty of murder and even on death row were subsequently found to be not guilty, and released. The law of averages would give us that at least some of those who have actually been executed were, in fact, innocent.
Once again that is not to say that this individual isn't guilty, even if it were not for these specific crimes (I can hear the outcry already).
Food for though, at least.
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The O.G who started rollin 60's with raymond washington ya'll know if they kill tookie there going to be trouble in the streets.
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I'm not for the death penalty personally.
Maybe I can afford the luxury of saying this beacuse I have not lost a loved one to some senseless act of brutality, commited by some fiend.
Life without parole...is a better option. The inabililty to move freely and do as you please...is punishment enough.
Part of the way I feel about the death penalty is beacuse there have been too many instances where a people have been executed, only to be found innocent after the fact !
Watch the news and you see cases where a guy has been in jail for 10,15,20 years only to have the case overturned because a witness lied or was coerced.
A falsely convicted man can be released from jail....he CANNOT be raised from the dead !
For the sake of not executing another innocent man the death penalty should be banned nationwide !
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Schwarzenegger Denies Clemency For Tookie Williams.
Good Bye and good riddance too a cold blooded killer.
