“Botched”
by digby
Oh my God:
.@baileyelise from the @AP on what appears to be a botched Oklahoma execution attempt tonight pic.twitter.com/l6GqRI8oQC
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) April 30, 2014
Erick Erickson said on twitter that it wasn’t “botched” because it was less horrible than the murder the man was convicted of. So, you know, we’re good and they’re evil. Jesus said so, I’m pretty sure. Or maybe not.
Science and law have led to the exoneration of hundreds of criminal defendants in recent decades, but big questions remain: How many other innocent defendants are locked up? How many are wrongly executed?
About one in 25 people imprisoned under a death sentence is likely innocent, according to a new statistical study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And that means it is all but certain that at least several of the 1,320 defendants executed since 1977 were innocent, the study says.
From 1973 to 2004, 1.6 percent of those sentenced to death in the U.S. — 138 prisoners — were exonerated and released because of innocence.
But the great majority of innocent people who are sentenced to death are never identified and freed, says professor Samuel Gross of the University of Michigan Law School, the study’s lead author.
Gosh, I sure hope nobody “botches” an execution of an innocent man. Erick Erickson’s whole moral framework will come into question and then where will we be? Of course, they must be guilty of something or this couldn’t happen, amirite?
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