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David Kaczynski's Newsday OpEd

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Daivd's OpEd, "New York should never have a death penalty," is in today's edition of Newsday.  He is executive director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty.Wrongful convictions result from a variety of causes, including eyewitness mistakes and inadequate defense. Jose Garcia, for example, spent 15 years in prison after being convicted of a Bronx homicide based on an eyewitness identification, even though the murder was committed a day after he had been arrested in the Dominican Republic - a seemingly ironclad alibi that his lawyer did not check out. Thanks to DNA, we know that the criminal justice system is fallible. Although the proposed reforms would help, even the best reforms cannot create a foolproof system as long as human beings are in charge...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).