On 5 Aug 2003 23:30:40 -0700, max1974isome@hotmail.com (Max)
wrote:

>Charles & Mambo <Duckman@get.lost> wrote in message news:<3F306887.5080501@get.lost>...
>> Rev. J. Toad wrote:
>> 
>> >>Therefore, we retain the capital punishment, but we apply it sparingly and

>> >>only when we're damn certain.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > How do you suggest we differentiate between "beyond a reasonable
>> > doubt" and "damn certain"?
>> 
>> In the case of multiple eyewitnesses, DNA, video recording, fingerprints, 
>> admission of guilt, etc.
>> 
>> Real life examples:
>> 
>> Capital punishment: Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh, Jeffrey 
>> Dahmer, robbery-murder recorded on tape...
>> 
>> Life-term imprisonment: O.J. Simpson, circumstantial evidence...
>
>Without putting too fine a point on it, I wonder how much the quality
>of a defendant's law team determines where they end up on your list.
>-m

  If O.J. had of been a poor white or black man, he would be on
death row, or already executed.
  Charles Manson, life in prison. Timothy purely circumstantial
evidence, already executed. Could of saved his own life by
testifying against those that helped him. Either very loyal or
had no one to help him. Very difficult to accomplish what he was
convicted of with out a support group.
 Jeffery Dahmer, had remains of victims in his freezer, life in
prison. Killed by a fellow prisoner.

  Susan Smith, confessed led police to bodies, Andrea Yates
called police waited for the police and confessed, life in
prison. Deanna beat her kids to death, called police, on trial
for life state is not going to seek death penalty. Darlie Routier
(sp) still denies guilt on death row. Lesson avoid the death
penalty by confessing. Maintain your innocence and get maximum
sentence.