{"id":27922,"date":"2012-05-16T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/execution-of-an-innocent.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:08:19","slug":"execution-of-an-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/execution-of-an-innocent.html","title":{"rendered":"Execution of an innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Except he was, of course, not innocent.  He was tried and convicted by the state of Texas. He exhausted his appeals. The process was followed, thus, he was legally considered guilty and correctly executed. Whether or not he actually did it is secondary to whether the rules were followed (and if they weren&#39;t, that&#39;s what appeals are for, so they must have been). Right?<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s like Nixon once said, &quot;When the President does it, that means that it&#39;s not illegal.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m sure that helps Scalia, and the good people of Texas, sleep easier.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fslatest%2Fposts%2F2012%2F05%2F15%2Fcarlos_deluna_columbia_law_professor_james_liebman_details_wrongful_execution_%2F51543323.jpg.CROP.rectangle-medium.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/slatest.slate.com\/posts\/2012\/05\/15\/carlos_deluna_columbia_law_professor_james_liebman_details_wrongful_execution_.html?from=rss\/&#038;wpisrc=newsletter_slatest'>Report: Texas Executed Innocent Man<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarlos DeLuna maintained his innocence from the moment he was arrested in 1983 for the stabbing death of a young Texas woman right up until he was executed six years later. On Monday, a Columbia Unive&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/9xjg5ZuSR7a' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except he was, of course, not innocent. He was tried and convicted by the state of Texas. He exhausted his appeals. The process was followed, thus, he was legally considered guilty and correctly executed. 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