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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Death penalty statistics
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 18:04:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 18:04:31 1985
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> >2. The possibility of error. How many executed persons have been later
> >   exhonerated. What is the possibility of such an error.
> 
> How accurately could you get such statistics.  I doubt that every case in
> which a man is executed is checked again later for errors.  After all, the
> deed is done, why seek to raise a ruckus over the dead?

Also, as I recall, that fellow they executed in Utah a few years ago
was accused of a number (4?) of murders.  They tried and convicted
him on one count, and executed him.  I still wonder if one or more
of the other 3 murders was committed by someone else.  We'll never
know.
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