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South Carolina executes first man in 13 years despite new evidence of innocence (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by jeffw to c/criminaljustice

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[–] dohpaz42 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He was innocent. The guy who implicated him even said so.

[–] themeatbridge 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's actually common for witnesses in a death penalty trial to recant years later. Often courts will ignore the change of heart, chalking it up to empathy and guilt for being a part of another human's execution. The more obvious explanation is that ee execute a lot of innocent people.

[–] dohpaz42 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You would think that in a civilized, first-world country, that it being a human life , they would take all new information (no matter how unlikely) seriously in the possible event the guy might actually be innocent.

But then again, this is South Carolina we’re talking about…

[–] themeatbridge 2 points 2 months ago

But that's my point. It's not about determining if the person being killed deserves to be killed. That's not ever the point. The point is to foist all of the bad feelings and sadness and anger onto one single person and then kill them like an effigy. The "guilty" person becomes a literal scapegoat.