On 28 Jul 2002 at 0:48, Hermit wrote:
>
> For horror:
>
> No Escape: Male Rape in US Prisons
(http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report.html)
>
> For worse:
> Stop Prisoner Rape (http://www.spr.org/)
>
> As for the assertion that nobody has been exonerated after execution,
I'd suggest that the assertion is quite true - and hellaciously misleading.
>
> To quote the DPIC
(http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocothers.html#executed) "There is
no
way to tell how many of the over 750 people executed since 1976 may
also have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of
innocence when the defendant is dead. Defense attorneys move on to
other cases where clients' lives can still be saved."
>
I'm sure that conclusive proof that an executed prisoner was indeed
innocent would both make the papers and the relevant lawyers' and
reporters' careers.
>
> So how are the incorrectly executed to be exonerated?
>
How can those killed by freed murderers have their lives and futures
restored?
>
> Even so, the site lists a large number of cases where subsequent
evidence indicates that the wrong person was executed.
>
If it was conclusive, it would not be confined to an advocacy site.
relatives and friends are all too willing (and I would wager more so than
cops who do not know the person in question as well) to lie and
fabricate evidence, especially after the execution of the person in
question, perhaps 'for the children' of the murderer.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Hermit
>
>
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