Hm. Thing is, “look, killing an innocent person means you’ve let the real killer go free” re the death penalty in general kinda invites “ok, so if we later find the real killer we’ll kill him, too.”
I see it as a compelling argument for keeping DNA evidence and allowing new evidence to be submitted and such, but I don’t see it as likely to sway anybody from supporting the death penalty.
And if you bring it up in a situation where it’s just not a likely outcome it won’t be given thought.
So re MH in that specific conversation, I don’t see it as having had any effect re her feelings about molesters, but perhaps some effect on continued appeal, though, honestly, perhaps only post mortem.
[clarification: Clarification: whether or not you want to make sure you don’t miss any guilty parties doesn’t fully overlap with whether or not you care about killing people who are innocent. DOES have bearing on the Perry thing as TX is blocking further investigation re the fire. ]
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Date: 2011-08-16 05:59 pm (UTC)Thing is, “look, killing an innocent person means you’ve let the real killer go free” re the death penalty in general kinda invites “ok, so if we later find the real killer we’ll kill him, too.”
I see it as a compelling argument for keeping DNA evidence and allowing new evidence to be submitted and such, but I don’t see it as likely to sway anybody from supporting the death penalty.
And if you bring it up in a situation where it’s just not a likely outcome it won’t be given thought.
So re MH in that specific conversation, I don’t see it as having had any effect re her feelings about molesters, but perhaps some effect on continued appeal, though, honestly, perhaps only post mortem.
[clarification: Clarification: whether or not you want to make sure you don’t miss any guilty parties doesn’t fully overlap with whether or not you care about killing people who are innocent. DOES have bearing on the Perry thing as TX is blocking further investigation re the fire. ]