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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yes. Apparently research on this issue is what led Texas to minimize the appeals and time that inmates spend on death row.
Wow, see, Texas, that's not where I would've gone with that. Jesus.
ETA: Thanks for that link, flea. Tons of eye-opening info. there.
Wow, see, Texas, that's not where I would've gone with that. Jesus.
Yikes. Yeah.
It's complicated that the laws vary state to state, too.
Yeah, it's not about cost. It's about vengeance. I can put myself in the shoes of someone who wants to off someone else who killed/hurt a loved one. I have to depend on civilization for to reel me in.
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I have to depend on civilization for to reel me in.
Yeah. Plus we depend on civilization to prevent cops from badgering witnesses to identify the "right" perp, or, failing that, to not execute someone when there's doubt about this.
I have to depend on civilization for to reel me in.
Yep. The catch being I don't always trust the rest of civilization.
This was the view outside my window at work, which ironically, is NSFW: [link]
Fucking hippies.
In 1997, a young man got in my car, held a knife to me, and told me to drive. And I did. We were headed toward the highway, but I told him I didn't have enough gas to get anywhere. He told me I "better have gas, bitch." And kept calling me "bitch" like it was my name.
He told me to take a left on a residential street, and I did. There was a softball game getting out, and a dozen or so people lined up on the sidewalk. I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. I bailed. I hit the pavement, tearing a roadrash across my legs and stomach and breasts. Pieces of gravel, rocks were stuck in my leg. I thought I broke all my bones. I couldn't move.
He got into the driver's side and took off.
There were cops playing that softball game. They caught him within a few minutes. They brought him up to the ambulance and I identified him.
He served five years in Walpole.
He told his lawyer and the judge that I was just a crazy person, that he was just hitchhiking and I went crazy.
There's no reason anyone should believe me over him. I have a long history of mental illness including suicide attempts. But they believed my word over his.
I have an odd relationship toward eyewitness testimony. Everyone believed me. I could have been a crazyperson who jumps out of cars. I'm grateful that they believed me.