Death Penalty in the USA

[SimonMac]

Listening to the news this morning about the case of yet another US prisoner released after his death sentance was overturned, the scary statistic was that there have been 152 exonerations of prisoners on death row in the United States since 1973

List of exonerated death row inmates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[scooterscot]

George Junius Stinney, Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.

George Stinney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brings a tear to my eye every time.

[minestrone]

250,000 unsolved murders since the 60s.

[xoggoth]

Amazed the US still has it. Barbaric really. Not too concerned if major criminals snuff it, good riddance, but a death penalty is going to remove some innocent people too. Convictions rarely have 100% certainty.

[BrilloPad]

Why do we trade with them? Or China or any of the others with death penalty...

[Paddy]

If you're poor & black, you're doomed.

Welsh coal miners ?

[mudskipper]

You've read/seen the Green Mile?

[SimonMac]

Amazed the US still has it. Barbaric really. Not too concerned if major criminals snuff it, good riddance, but a death penalty is going to remove some innocent people too. Convictions rarely have 100% certainty.

On death row they way its a 4.1% error in conviction rate

[FatLazyContractor]

Welsh coal miners ?

That is their choice of life 'em spongers!

[VectraMan]

On death row they way its a 4.1% error in conviction rate

I like those odds.