Guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt.

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_DoubtingThomas
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Guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt.

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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
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Re: Guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt

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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.
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Re: Guilty until proven innocent beyond all reasonable doubt

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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.
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