Comments on: Innocents on Death Row: Who’s counting? http://apublicdefender.com/2008/04/09/innocents-on-death-row-whos-counting/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:47:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Just a little guilty | a public defender http://apublicdefender.com/2008/04/09/innocents-on-death-row-whos-counting/#comment-37825 Just a little guilty | a public defender Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:11:36 +0000 http://apublicdefender.com/?p=1127#comment-37825 [...] written about this before and I think it comes down to the distinction between factually innocent and [...] [...] written about this before and I think it comes down to the distinction between factually innocent and [...]

]]> By: MissConductPDX http://apublicdefender.com/2008/04/09/innocents-on-death-row-whos-counting/#comment-23930 MissConductPDX Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:26:54 +0000 http://apublicdefender.com/?p=1127#comment-23930 Oh dear, Josh Marquis from my neck of the woods strikes again. He once told me that the death penalty in Oregon is being administered fairly because there isn't a single one of the inmates on death row asserting their innocence. What he failed to take into account is that Oregon's death penalty was only reinstated (after a tortured path) in 1984. See "A Tortured History: The Story of Capital Punishment in Oregon" by William R. Long. While it seems that 1984 was a long time ago (not so long for some of us), the number of legal challenges to death cases at both the state and federal levels means that the inmates who will, as a last resort, assert their innocence have not gotten to that stage yet! So, my response to dear Josh is to quit using spurious arguments to make his case and to wait. I have personally represented two clients in this state on death row who will, sooner or later, begin asserting their actual innocence. Then, Josh will see the storm land on his own door step. Oh dear, Josh Marquis from my neck of the woods strikes again.

He once told me that the death penalty in Oregon is being administered fairly because there isn’t a single one of the inmates on death row asserting their innocence.

What he failed to take into account is that Oregon’s death penalty was only reinstated (after a tortured path) in 1984. See “A Tortured History: The Story of Capital Punishment in Oregon” by William R. Long.

While it seems that 1984 was a long time ago (not so long for some of us), the number of legal challenges to death cases at both the state and federal levels means that the inmates who will, as a last resort, assert their innocence have not gotten to that stage yet!

So, my response to dear Josh is to quit using spurious arguments to make his case and to wait. I have personally represented two clients in this state on death row who will, sooner or later, begin asserting their actual innocence.

Then, Josh will see the storm land on his own door step.

]]> By: SPO http://apublicdefender.com/2008/04/09/innocents-on-death-row-whos-counting/#comment-23918 SPO Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:58:04 +0000 http://apublicdefender.com/?p=1127#comment-23918 The reason it matters is that we're after truth. And, to the extent that people who "did it" get off death row, the procedural liberality of the system is used to indict the system. There's a difference between Kirk Bloodworth and Jeremy Sheets, and it's the height of sophistry to ignore that difference. The reason it matters is that we’re after truth. And, to the extent that people who “did it” get off death row, the procedural liberality of the system is used to indict the system. There’s a difference between Kirk Bloodworth and Jeremy Sheets, and it’s the height of sophistry to ignore that difference.

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