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Guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt.
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:46 am
by _DoubtingThomas
So in American you can now be guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt.
"Alabama inmate Nathaniel Woods executed for 2004 police murders. Woods' co-defendant, who has confessed to being the triggerman and denies Woods was complicit, implored for his execution to be stopped."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/su ... s-n1150711
Re: Guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:11 am
by _Jersey Girl
So in American you can now be guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt.
No. You can be found guilty beyond
A reasonable doubt. That's all that is asked of jurors.
Re: Guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:27 am
by _Gunnar
DoubtingThomas wrote:So in American you can now be guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt.
"Alabama inmate Nathaniel Woods executed for 2004 police murders. Woods' co-defendant, who has confessed to being the triggerman and denies Woods was complicit, implored for his execution to be stopped."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/su ... s-n1150711
This is the primary reason why I am unalterably opposed to capital punishment. There have been documented cases of people being found innocent after having been unjustly executed for crimes they didn't commit. I don't care how rarely this happens; if can happen even once, that is an argument against capital punishment that Trump's any conceivable argument in favor of capital punishment, as far as I'm concerned.