... to remain indifferent.Even though I support captial punishment and harsh sentencing guidelines, the recent frequency of convicted innocents is too much for me to have confidence in the system.A judge signed an order Thursday freeing a man from prison where he had spent more than two decades after being wrongfully convicted of the brutal rape of a 25-year-old woman. [Image courtesy of Cavehill]
Justice defined: The virtue which consists in giving to every one what is his due; practical conformity to the laws and to principles of rectitude in the dealings of men with each other; honesty; integrity in commerce or mutual intercourse. [Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary of American English]For example ...DNA Clears Connecticut Man of Rape After 18 Years in PrisonKy. Man Freed From Jail on DNA Evidence Tries to Sue CityInnocent Man Released After 20 YearsJamaica: Visit by innocent man released from Florida's Death RowLocked up for 25 years and you were innocent ... you owe us £80,000INNOCENT MAN WALKS FREE AFTER ... FIVE YEARS IN PRISONInnocent man released from death rowInnocent man ... after 5 years on Alabama's death rowIn search of relatives of 95 year old prisonerInnocent man freed with luck, good lawyersWhen He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.Revelation 6:5Full story >>>>>
Friday, July 07, 2006
JUSTICE: This is happening too freqently for me ...
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