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Originally posted by James
IS there is a history in the USA of awarding compensation to the falsely imprisoned?
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Not the USA, but Oklahoma passed a law that allows wrongly convicted people to sue the government for a certain amount of compensation. It's not as much as it probably should be, but at least it's something.
I still support the death penalty though. Especially with today's technology. That's how we're finding people of yesteryear that were wrongly convicted.
If you have DNA evidence, eyewitness evidence, etc... yeah, the death penalty should definitely come into play.
The best thing in a long time that has made me question the death penalty is that Terry Nichols (OKC Bombing) didn't get the needle -- so how many people do you need to kill before the death penalty applies to you?