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In article <GREENEG.95Sep21170114@dali.cs.unc.edu> greeneg@dali.cs.unc.edu (George Greene) writes:
|In article <DF96Aq.2I9@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> george@nccu.edu (george conklin) writes:
| :     You are right, Dave.  If this fellow were African American,
| :   he would be in jail until the DNA results came in.
|
|Hell, if he were African-American, even the DNA results might
|not get him out of jail.  Even another person confessing to
|the crime might not get him out of jail.  Even the same
|DA CONVICTING another person of the same crime might not
|get him out of jail.  Or, as the Supreme Court has put it,
|"Innocence is no bar to execution."  These are recent
|historical facts.
|
|
|This has been a public service announcement.

   When the Supreme Court ruled that claims of
actual innocence were not an issue before
the Supreme Court, I felt that a valuable part
of America had died.  But the court did rule
that last year, and all the press duly noted it.

   And of course nationally African Americans
are far more likely to be executed than any other
group for the SAME crimes.



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