{"id":1073,"date":"2007-07-18T15:21:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2014-03-12T13:35:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:35:41","slug":"no-do-overs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"No Do-Overs"},"content":{"rendered":"

On few issues do I get as much crap from fellow conservatives as my stance on the Death Penalty.<\/p>\n

I support the death penalty for every possible reason, except one; the likelihood of executing the innocent.\u00a0 And that, as it happens, is dispositive to me.\u00a0 Since an equally-safe-to-the-public method – life in Supermax – exists, there is no moral reason to use the death penalty<\/em> until such a time as humans are very nearly perfect.<\/p>\n

And as Flash shows in the latest of the over fifty cases such cases that have cropped up since the return of the Death Penalty in 1977, we’re nowhere close to perfect<\/a> yet, citing a WaPo article on a stay of execution in the case of Troy Davis, who was scheduled to die…today.<\/p>\n

Oops.\u00a0 That coulda been embarassing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The prosecution’s case against Davis, 38, has crumbled in the 16 years since he was sentenced to death for shooting a police officer working a security detail in Savannah. Most of the key witnesses in Davis’s trial have recanted their testimony, and some have said they lied under police pressure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given that Death Row is no more secure than Supermax, what precisely does the public lose by demanding “perfection” – guilt beyond a rational doubt – in such cases?\u00a0 Or abolishing capital punishment altogether?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On few issues do I get as much crap from fellow conservatives as my stance on the Death Penalty. I support the death penalty for every possible reason, except one; the likelihood of executing the innocent.\u00a0 And that, as it happens, is dispositive to me.\u00a0 Since an equally-safe-to-the-public method – life in Supermax – exists, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","tag-death-penalty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42383,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/42383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}