Doug's Dynamic Drivel

Isn’t it time someone. anyone, charged the Texas governor with attempted murder, or better yet premeditated 1st degree murder. After all the evidence is fairly clear that innocents have been executed in Texas recently. Seems to me that until some prosecutor gets the balls to do this that more and more innocent people are going [...]

I am an ardent opponent of the death penalty. Not because no one deserves to die, there are plenty of those around, but simply because the odds of executing an innocent person are way too high (any conceivable chance is too high a price to pay.) I knew things were bad in the US but [...]

(LA Times)The Supreme Court said Thursday that DNA possesses a unique ability to free the innocent and convict the guilty, but the justices nonetheless ruled that prisoners do not have a constitutional right to demand DNA testing of evidence that remains in police files. In a 5-4 ruling, the court’s conservative bloc agreed to stand [...]