sS it Justice or Murder?

This article is about the death penalty, whether inmates have been wrongfully executed. Perry believes that there were no innocent inmates executed but plenty of citizens believe there were. "A 2008 Harris survey found that 95 percent of respondents felt the system sometimes convict the wrong person in murder cases," and a wrong conviction leads to a wrong execution.

"No sir," Perry said. "I've never struggled with that at all. The State of Texas has a very thoughtful, a very clear process in place (in) which when someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing, they go through an appellate process, they go to the Supreme Court of the United States, if that's required."

That is Perry's response to the question, Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any of (the executed inmates) might have been innocent?

I feel that if you are a suspect in a murder case and the evidence are pointing toward you, even if they (Forensic Scientist) are not a 100 percent positive, just to give the family of the victims closure and justice, you will be convicted.

There have been over 130 death row inmates released since the 1970s because of the new evidence, including DNA. This proves that there is a possibility that innocent people have been killed/executed.

This article has an example of a possible wrongful conviction, Cameron Todd Willingham. He was executed in 2004 for a 1991 house fire in Corsicana that killed his three daughters. "Post-execution reviews have shown that conviction was largely based on the fire science theories that became outdated and UNRELIABLE." "The case also has sparked controversy about its handling by the Texas Forensic Science Commission, a panel that determined in April that investigators used scienticfically invalid techniques to conclude the fire that killed the three young girls in Corsicana had been intentionally set by their father."

Is it okay for Texas to kill people that have killed as a punishment? I feel that we, Texas, are hypocrites. Hypocrite is a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings. Perry said at the debate, If you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is you will be executed." We feel that killing is wrong, yet, we kill those who are found guilty of murder, who could possibly be innocent. I feel that the death penalty should only be given to those that are 100 percent guilty, or only be given to those with actual evidence, not just because of some witnesses.

"Our governor says he has lost no sleep over the notion that Texas might have executed an innocent person. We hope his sound sleep is justified, but it's hard not to have doubts."

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Austin American Statesman

Prove that you are right

There's a lot of people that is saying that President Obama is a "Bad President," but what I have not heard was why. Obama is doing pretty well considering how the economy was before he became President. Of course he has made some mistakes but who hasn't. Everybody is not perfect. In this commentary he list a few things where critics say he messed up at, but there's also an example of someone doing worse.

'He should have pushed for a much bigger stimulus in 2009. That's the view of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, now gospel among liberals. It's true economically but bears no relationship to the political truth of that period. Consider that in December 2008, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a hardcore liberal Democrat, proposed a $165 billion stimulus and said he would be ecstatic if it went to $300 billion. President-elect Obama wanted to go over $1 trillion but was told by House Democrats that it absolutely wouldn't pass. In exchange for the votes of three Republicans in the Senate he needed for passage, Obama reduced the stimulus to $787 billion, which was still almost five times Rendell's number and the largest amount that was politically possible.'

That was a quote from this article that I have heard plenty of people say that's why Obama is a bad president, but what people fail to realize is that Obama has to go through other people for approval of things he want to do. Yes he's president but he don't have that much power.

For everybody that has said, "Obama is a bad President," or anything similar to that should read this commentary and if you have any facts to prove that what was said in this article was wrong please leave a comment.

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/you-think-obamas-been-a-bad-president-prove-1800481.html?page=2