The decision affirms a lower court’s ruling nullifying Jimmie “Chris” Duncan’s 1998 first-degree murder conviction. Duncan was convicted based in part on forensic evidence that is now widely regarded as junk science.
My argument has always been practical, even if you accept that the state killing people is “ok”: it’s so expensive to litigate death row cases and keep inmates on death row that the extra “justice” isn’t worth it. Being in prison for life is a far greater deterrent anyway, so why fight this battle?
My republicans parents would just argue we shouldn’t let them litigate it after the verdict… in their mind can’t make appeals means less cost so everything is back to being perfectly ok
My argument has always been practical, even if you accept that the state killing people is “ok”: it’s so expensive to litigate death row cases and keep inmates on death row that the extra “justice” isn’t worth it. Being in prison for life is a far greater deterrent anyway, so why fight this battle?
My republicans parents would just argue we shouldn’t let them litigate it after the verdict… in their mind can’t make appeals means less cost so everything is back to being perfectly ok