So you have a state commission, created by the state supreme court, to look at claims of wrongful convictions, “studying false eyewitness identifications, interrogation techniques, false confessions, the use of informants, the handling of forensic evidence, attorney competence and conduct, the processing of cases and the administration of the death penalty.” And it costs you only $200K in your $70 billion state budget, for a state which spends over $1 million for each capital conviction through the appeal process, and which is known to have wrongfully convicted 23 people of capital crimes, sentencing them to death, since 1973.
So, of course, if you're Governor Rick Scott, what do you do? _ You eliminate the commission's funding._
Why? Why would you do that? Because it's embarrassing to admit that sometimes the state judicial system screws up? Because it's suggesting reforms you don't like? Because $200,000 could go toward something pretty for the Governor's office? Because you're an homicidal lunatic who would rather see more innocent people die at the hands of the state of Florida, even though that means not only have innocent people been killed but that the actual murderers are still among us?
Who can tell any more, with Rick Scott?
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