Exculpatory evidence after execution

[Aimless]

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This should be where proponents of the death penalty call for the prosecution of everyone—including the SCOTUS justices—who was involved in the killing of a man who might otherwise not have been killed by the state.

[Lewkowski]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledell_Lee

"He was accused of three sexual assaults, and convicted of two, the 1991 rape of a Jacksonville woman and the 1990 rape of a Jacksonville teenager.[1]"

"He was also prosecuted for the November 1989 rape and murder of 22-year-old Christine Lewis, a mother, in November 1989.[7] Lewis was abducted from her home. She was later raped, strangled, and eventually killed. Her body was found inside a closet at an abandoned home.[7] Lee was tried in 1994; the jury could not reach a verdict.[8] After Lee was convicted and sentenced to death for Reese's murder, county prosecutors decided against retrying him for the alleged murder of Lewis.[7]"

[Aimless]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledell_Lee

"He was accused of three sexual assaults, and convicted of two, the 1991 rape of a Jacksonville woman and the 1990 rape of a Jacksonville teenager.[1]"

"He was also prosecuted for the November 1989 rape and murder of 22-year-old Christine Lewis, a mother, in November 1989.[7] Lewis was abducted from her home. She was later raped, strangled, and eventually killed. Her body was found inside a closet at an abandoned home.[7] Lee was tried in 1994; the jury could not reach a verdict.[8] After Lee was convicted and sentenced to death for Reese's murder, county prosecutors decided against retrying him for the alleged murder of Lewis.[7]"

So what you're saying is that the state, despite several flawed attempts, failed to convict a brain-damaged man with incompetent/incapacitated lawyers of one capital offense, but convicted him of another capital offense that would also not have been successfully prosecuted if everyone had done their jobs properly. That's the standard you hold your third-world justice system to.

You can find an overview of the flaws with the case—apart from the DNA issue—here: https://innocenceproject.org/ledell-...and-execution/

[LittleFuzzy]

What he's saying is that by wrongfully convicting a man, he gets to execute the "scum" and whoever actually committed the crime when they catch and try that person later. Really we'd all be better off if the police and prosecutors would routinely charge someone they know didn't commit a crime but who they think should be put away or executed anyway just because you know statistically, some of them will get killed that way before the error is proven.

[Aimless]

But Fuzzy not tryna kink-shame or anything but that's super creepy and weird

[Lewkowski]

So what you're saying is that the state, despite several flawed attempts, failed to convict a brain-damaged man with incompetent/incapacitated lawyers of one capital offense, but convicted him of another capital offense that would also not have been successfully prosecuted if everyone had done their jobs properly. That's the standard you hold your third-world justice system to.

You can find an overview of the flaws with the case—apart from the DNA issue—here: https://innocenceproject.org/ledell-...and-execution/

Cathy Newman

[LittleFuzzy]

But Fuzzy not tryna kink-shame or anything but that's super creepy and weird

If it helps, statistically almost all of them are going to be black people or at least mostly lower-class. Not middle-class white people like Sal, that optemtrist who was the victim of the only unlawful shooting Lewk has ever really cared about.

And if you're worried about the real criminals being free to commit more crimes, don't be. It's not like the police don't learn from their mistakes. They'll certainly blame the real criminal the second time around. We're not talking about police forces incompetent or malevolent that they would raid the same innocent family on four separate occasions, after all.

[Aimless]

Cathy Newman

Perhaps you're thinking about a different case.

[Dreadnaught]

The death penalty is generally only appropriate for cases that have a level of certainty that is unobtainable, hence it should be outlawed.

[RandBlade]

The death penalty is generally only appropriate for cases that have a level of certainty that is unobtainable, hence it should be outlawed.

Indeed.

[Aimless]

Fortunately, this was sorted before the execution:

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