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Loki45 -> RE: Innocent blood is on the hands of all Texans (8/27/2009 10:20:33 PM)
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...fair enough. So what about the killers of Todd Willingham? Do they get a free pass because it was done officially? Your position would be logically consistent if you also argued for justice for Todd Willingham. Thus far i've missed that bit.......
Does a paramedic who is doing his job to the best of his ability get charged with a patient's death? Does a cop who arrived too late to stop a break-in murder get charged with that crime? No.
So in this case, what you have is people -- a judge, a jury of 12, a prosector, investigators, etc -- who performed their job to the best of their ability. No one person killed Todd Willingham. And as far as I can tell, it's only been alleged that he was truly innocent anyway. I've seen no court outcome that exonerates him post-execution.
So, no. There is no free pass because everyone did their job. If the evidence was bad, if the expert witnesses were wrong...that doesn't make them evil, conspiring murderers. That makes them wrong. People die as a result of someone being "wrong" a lot. It doesn't mean the person who's wrong is guilty of their murder.
As I said, the system is flawed. It should be improved. But we should not stop executing killers, we should work harder to ensure the innocent are not falsely convicted.
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