Death Row

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An interesting infographic, however, note the last week is actually sometime in April. The last person executed in Texas was Moody (http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/deathrow/drowlist/moo...) on 09/16/2009. You can see his last statement at http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/moodystephenlast.htm

too many innocents being executed. That's murder or manslaughter in my eyes: http://www.google.co.il/search?q=site:http://www.tdcj.state....

... and in some parts of the world still with no trial!

still, not much of a trial if justice isn't being served: in fact injustice is increasing!

Justice is not revenge.

Exactly. People are being executed to please the community, make them feel safe, prove the system works, give the relatives solace. Injustice is increasing.

People are getting away with murder or more, thus causing innocent executions and perhaps continuing their crime.

As far as I'm concerned, when an innocent black man or anyone else is thrown into the execution chamber for the aforementioned motives, that's murder in the guise of justice: relatives want revenge, any revenge to ease the grief, to hell with justice! Prosecutors want a string of successes.

Innocents end up as scapegoats. Case closed. Everyone moves on. Go read some of those last statements. Some could be lying, but others are there as a result of a judicial system used and abused for anything but justice.

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