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> Four months after the Court's ruling, Herrera was executed. His last words were: "I am innocent, innocent, innocent. . . . I am an innocent man, and something very wrong is taking place tonight."

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Seems like if they believed he was innocent they should’ve contacted the executive themselves to request a pardon.

People who become agents of the correctional system are not selected for their independence of thought, or openness to deviating from protocol.

Those are, in fact, actually qualities that are grounds for dismissal in selection processes for law enforcement; the on ramp of the corrections pipeline.

Any philosopher finding themselves in the System's custody may as well, despair. Before the Law, not even God's mercy will stay the wheels of Justice as she's wrought.

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