41. Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating said Friday he supports a higher legal standard in death penalty cases that would absolutely guarantee that no innocent person is put to death. 42. Race denied that he ever railroaded an innocent person. 43. Polls also showed that a majority of Texans believe that an innocent person has been executed. 44. Rather, it is cause to wonder if innocent persons have been put to death because a capricious and increasingly constrained review process has failed to save them. 45. Such lapses could, in a different case, end up costing an innocent person his freedom or even his life. 46. The American criminal justice system always has operated on the assumption that government must do everything in its power to assure that it does not imprison an innocent person. 47. The computer monitors how long it takes a subject to shoot, what factors went into the decision, and whether he killed a foe or an innocent person. 48. The danger of executing even one innocent person, they said, was reason enough not to pass the measure. 49. The governor proposes an elaborate set of safeguards to prevent innocent persons from going to their deaths. 50. The habeas corpus restrictions moving through Congress would increase the chance of an innocent person being executed, in two main ways. |