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.
As long as the death penalty exists it will have an error rate. Abolishing the death penalty is about sparing the innocent a wrongful execution. The guilty can rot in prison for life, thats still a punishment, and anyone wrongfully incarcerated has a chance to be exonerated.
You can free an innocent person from prison, but you cant un-execute them.
There’s a man on death row in Texas, named Robert Roberson. He’s come days from execution at one point, and he’s VERY likely innocent. He was accused of killing his daughter through “shaken baby syndrome” and it was long since proven to be junk science.
He’s got a stay now and is awaiting a new trial.
If there’s ANY chance of executing someone innocent, it should be abolished, and because it’s brutal and has no place in this day and age.
As long as the death penalty exists it will have an error rate. Abolishing the death penalty is about sparing the innocent a wrongful execution. The guilty can rot in prison for life, thats still a punishment, and anyone wrongfully incarcerated has a chance to be exonerated.
You can free an innocent person from prison, but you cant un-execute them.
There’s a man on death row in Texas, named Robert Roberson. He’s come days from execution at one point, and he’s VERY likely innocent. He was accused of killing his daughter through “shaken baby syndrome” and it was long since proven to be junk science.
He’s got a stay now and is awaiting a new trial.
If there’s ANY chance of executing someone innocent, it should be abolished, and because it’s brutal and has no place in this day and age.