Originally Posted by greazzer

I also wonder if the "4% error rate" is really accurate. I know the clever slippery slope arguements are forthcoming by the intellectual elite and the "just one person receiving capital punishment who was wrongfully convicted" is the breaking point for any death sentence advocate. Really? Does that argument hold water for jails and prisons since I am pretty sure there's at least one person not guilty sitting in a cell? I know ... it's the "finality" and irreversible consequences of the death penality. Guess what? Those victims have finality and the consequences are irreversible also. Then the same group want to re-argue that so, so many of those on death row are "innocent." Really ? That many? Death row is reserved for the worst of the worst. From what I could glean, a vast, vast majority have evidence against them above and beyond a "reasonable doubt" or any doubt whatsoever. Why is MSNBC and others not talking about the victim, the girl who was shot and buried alive ? Why the "sympathy" for a killer ? Can you really compare his 30-some minutes of "anguish" as the media is now calling it and weigh that against what that girl endured right before her heart stopped beating and the family's daily reminder that their little girl is no longer here. I am at least happy for the family that Lockett is dead and the family got word that Lockett suffered a tiny, tiny amount before he died. Too bad Lockett did not suffer a great deal before his heart stopped beating.