Man, I love Texas :)

I can't even read the article, it'll make me ill.

Expressing the feeling that he won't get the punishment he deserves is different than deriding the system for providing him a lawyer and posting random dollar signs at the end of your sentence in some twisted way of providing a point.

And, what exactly is the punishment he deserves? Since you know better than the justice system that is apparently unique to the rest of the world in protecting bad guys.

Also I'll see your :rolleyes: at the bolded.

See, that's just it, MC. It's all the plea deals, money, etc that I don't like. Remember our discussion about the money part? If he gets the death penalty, which I'm all for, then why can't they just do away with him right now. Today. Why a death row? I just thought there was going to be some kind of plea deal, that's why I didn't think he was going to get what he deserves.

Don't mess with Texas.:p

I'm sure you've heard some of the cases about death row inmates who have been exonerated because of new developments coming up.

Let's go even more 19th century. It can even be public and involve either a hanging, decapitation, or gun range (I can't believe there's a state that still has that).

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Michel Foucault is laughing at me.

You may remember our discussion but obviously you didn't understand it if you're asking why we can't just despense with a trial and hang him now. Because. It. Would. Be. Unconstitutional. Not to mention uncivilized.

Seriously, I'm sorry but I just don't have much patience with this. I'll be the first to admit that the criminal justice isn't perfect -- in some cases far from it. And I'll gladly listen to informed criticisms and engage in discussions about them. But I have little patience with criticisms -- complete with :rolleyes:s and $s -- that demonstrate appalling ignorance of the some of the basic constitutional principles this country is founded on -- principles that a fifth grader should know.

What she's doing is venting and vents are not engaging.

I think it's gone now, it was just grandfathered in for anyone convicted before the change.

Not to mention that many countries have found that the death penalty itself isn't civilized.

/cosigns MC for the rest of the thread.

Yeah, I have. But I'm just talking about if all the evidence is there. DNA etc.



I understood it, but I didn't agree with it all. The part I don't agree with is how the punishment isn't equal. If you have money (like OJ) you can get away with murder. I wasn't trying to degrade the law, MC. I just don't agree with it all. Some of it, but not all of it, and there's nothing wrong with my frustration towards that. I appreciate you explaining it to me and I wasn't debating with you, because this is what you do for a living, it's just that I don't agree with the way a lot of it is handled. That's all I'm saying. I wasn't trying to offend you. Honestly, I wasn't.

That isn't necessarily the truth. There are plenty of good attorneys that do plenty of pro bono work. And it is also like anything else, you get what you pay for.

THIS.
It's so frustrating. A two year old! I'm sorry, but I wish they would do away with him, now. Today.

Many of the people that have been cleared were initially convicted because "the evidence was there." There's always room for human error.

How does his death fix anything?

I agree with "you get what you pay for"...most of the time, but you know as well as I do, if it was you or me being chased by a million police cars on the freeway, doing 30 mph, you know they wouldn't have let us drive until we decided to stop. But because it was OJ, it was handled differently. That's Bullcrap and you know it!