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Politics Discussion | by mekkanik_mike | 2014-05-05 00:30:02 |
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The Death Penalty | by ag_wyvern | 2014-05-06 08:34:08 |
| false convictions |
by ag_wyvern |
2014-05-06 10:53:27 |
Here's one of my favourite parts from the clip (around the 7:45 mark):
Oliver: "Statistics suggest that false convictions aren't all that rare."
<newsclip>: "Just this week we are learning from the proceedings of the National Academey of Sciences, a study that shows 4% of death row inmates are innocent."
Oliver: "... Four percent?! Wow, I think the outrage about this must be off the charts. I remember a certain Texas governor who felt that four individual cases of voter impersonation in the last decade was a moral issue important to address.
<newsclip: rick perry> "Any person who does not want to see fraud believes in having good, open, honest elections transparent." ... "Well, we take it to the Supreme Court."
Oliver: "To the Supreme Court! Over a voter impersonation rate essentially close to zero percent. So a potential 'executing the innocent' rate of *four* percent must really eat away at Rick Perry."
<newsclip: rick perry at a debate>:
<moderator> "Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?"
<perry>: "No sir, I've never struggled with that at all."
oof :-) |
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