Texas executes an innocent man

[SeattleUte]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...7fa_fact_grann

The most interesting thing about this article is how Justice Scalia and other intelligent people who support the death penalty agree that if a single innocent man, wrongfully convicted, is executed, the death penalty loses all moral authority or justification. They contend this has never happened nor could it in our system. They are naive, deluded, or venal.

Here a man was tried for three alleged murders over just two days. A marriage counselor with a B.A. was allowed to testify that he was a sociopath. A psychotic fellow prisoner testified that this defendant, whom he had never met, and who steadfastly maintainted his innocence, until the moment before they stuck the lethal injection in him, and rejected a life in prisonment deal on the eve of trial, confessed to him through a food slot. The accuser was set free for giving this testimony. One of the prosecution's shrinks literally has kept score of all the men he helped send to the death penalty, and has had his license revoked for thusly whoring himself.

The arson investigators had high school diplomas and mail order certificates, and their conclusions were "wives' tales" and "junk science." They claimed to operate on "intuition" and denied applicability of science. After a real, world class scientist issued a report debunking the arson investigators' conclusions beyond any doubt the Texas clemency board and the governor didn't read it, by their own admission.

Texas-style justice. Sickening. Texas, Iran, China, Pakistan, these places are in a class by themselves.