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Gypsy|1333584141|3163653 said:It is on point, IMO. We have to offer equal protection of the laws in this country. That means that whether or not it's a capital crime the treatment of the accused has to be substantially the same. So because we have the death penalty we are as a society, more risk adverse toward putting innocents in jail
Well...this is getting off topic, but I am not the one who started to discuss the death penalty.
First, in some states (like California) the treatment of the accused can be quite different when he is accused of a capital crime.
Second, I think the notion that the United States in risk averse to trampling the rights of innocents is risible. Texas, for example, has a veritable assembly line running from the back of the jail house to the execution chamber!
Deb/AGBF