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**emingeRek** · 09-22-2011, 08:43 PM

So you can lock someone up for life without under reasonable doubt, but you need certainty to execute them? Sorry, don't buy it. Either they're guilty or not guilty. The standards have to be the same.

I am not even sure they met the standard of reasonable doubt in this instance. 7 of 9 witnessess recanted, and one of the others is an alternative suspect. Several of the jurors indicated they were swayed byt those witnesses and should have voted the other way.

09-22-2011, 08:43 PM	#20
emingeRek Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 401 Senior Member	So you can lock someone up for life without under reasonable doubt, but you need certainty to execute them? Sorry, don't buy it. Either they're guilty or not guilty. The standards have to be the same. I am not even sure they met the standard of reasonable doubt in this instance. 7 of 9 witnessess recanted, and one of the others is an alternative suspect. Several of the jurors indicated they were swayed byt those witnesses and should have voted the other way.
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