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<blockquote data-quote="Lammie" data-source="post: 484826" data-attributes="member: 3306"><p>For years, the Dallas District Attorney's office wrongfully convicted hundreds of people of capitol crimes for the sake of chalking up one more "win" for DA David Wade. There is a documentary that came out 20 or so years ago called <em>The Thin Blue Line</em> that chronicles one such case involving Randall Dale Adams, who was accused to shooting a Dallas police officer in the seventies and was sentenced to death. It was shameful. The new DA in Dallas County has made organizations like Project Innocence welcomed there to look at evidence again using technology that did not exist at the time of convictions. </p><p></p><p>I don't have anything against the death penalty. I just want to know that the person being executed has actually committed the crime. </p><p></p><p>I can't imagine what it would be like to stand accused of a crime you did not commit and then have to sit on Death Row forever waiting for your fate. Call me liberal, but I believe in justice for all. It must be hard on families of victims, to be sure, when a conviction is overturned, but really, would you rather that someone other than the person guilty of the crime were executed? Would that really serve justice?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lammie, post: 484826, member: 3306"] For years, the Dallas District Attorney's office wrongfully convicted hundreds of people of capitol crimes for the sake of chalking up one more "win" for DA David Wade. There is a documentary that came out 20 or so years ago called [i]The Thin Blue Line[/i] that chronicles one such case involving Randall Dale Adams, who was accused to shooting a Dallas police officer in the seventies and was sentenced to death. It was shameful. The new DA in Dallas County has made organizations like Project Innocence welcomed there to look at evidence again using technology that did not exist at the time of convictions. I don't have anything against the death penalty. I just want to know that the person being executed has actually committed the crime. I can't imagine what it would be like to stand accused of a crime you did not commit and then have to sit on Death Row forever waiting for your fate. Call me liberal, but I believe in justice for all. It must be hard on families of victims, to be sure, when a conviction is overturned, but really, would you rather that someone other than the person guilty of the crime were executed? Would that really serve justice? [/QUOTE]
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