Did Texas execute an innocent man?

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Won't have any effect. My father did a murder case a while back. Got the conviction reversed on appeal and subsequently got an acquittal on the retrial.

I'm against the death penalty for a variety of reasons. Mostly though, because it's not handed out on what I perceive to be an equal or fair basis, i.e., more likely to be given to racial minorities and people of lower socio-economic status.

I look at it like this -- if they couldn't put Terry Nichols to death [co-conspirator for the OKC bombing], then pretty much no one else matches up. Not even close.

Not even Ted Bundy?

I'm ambivalent about the death penalty; like you said above it is handed out with a fair amount of bias, and is it really up to people to determine whether someone lives or dies?

I know, however, that the elimination of the death penalty would not be looked upon too favorably in Texas, as well as the Southern states. In certain parts of the country, it is here to stay.

[DSTRen13]

It won't make a difference. It SHOULD make a difference, but it WON'T make a difference.

The death penalty is one of "those issues" - people have their minds pretty much made up by age 20, if not younger, and it's rare that those opinions ever change for the rest of their lives no matter what.