{"id":28196,"date":"2012-06-10T01:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T07:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/for-want-of-200000-some-unknown-number-of-lives-were-lost.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:57:39","slug":"for-want-of-200000-some-unknown-number-of-lives-were-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/for-want-of-200000-some-unknown-number-of-lives-were-lost.html","title":{"rendered":"For want of $200,000, some unknown number of lives were lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you have a state commission, created by the state supreme court, to look at claims of wrongful convictions,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cstudying 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.\u201d And it costs you only $200K in your $70 billion state budget, for a state which spends over $1\u00a0million for each capital conviction through the appeal process, and which is known<\/i> to have wrongfully convicted 23 people of capital crimes, sentencing them to death, since 1973.<\/p>\n

So, of course, if you're Governor Rick Scott, what do you do? _ You eliminate the commission's funding._<\/p>\n

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\u00a0homicidal\u00a0lunatic 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?<\/i><\/p>\n

Who can tell any more, with Rick Scott?<\/p>\n

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So you have a state commission, created by the state supreme court, to look at claims of wrongful convictions,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cstudying 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.\u201d And it costs you only … Continue reading “For want of $200,000, some unknown number of lives were lost”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-crime-punishment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128665,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/forensic-fakery-biased-science-false-convictions-and-yeah-some-folk-who-died.html","url_meta":{"origin":28196,"position":0},"title":"Forensic fakery, biased science, false convictions, and, yeah, some folk who died","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Nov-15 5:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"But, hey, we gotta have the death penalty to show people we are tough on crime![1][1] Except the crime of incenting forensic labs to fabricate convicting evidence, misleading testimony, and sloppy conclusions that result in people getting the death penalty for crimes they may not have committed. 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