The Innocence Project because I can't get over the fact that the very first time DNA evidence proved without a doubt that the state was killing innocent people the Supreme Court didn't take the next capital case available to it and strike down the death penalty on the grounds that taking life capriciously based on a flawed epistomology is cruel.
Edit: Which the court did in 1972 out of the concern that its uneven application made it cruel and/or unusual.
Furman was a poorly decided disaster that, because courts can't backtrack, led to the weird Gregg regime.
This is simply not a matter for the judiciary to decide; by trying in Furman, SCOTUS bequeathed to us a legal disaster zone that jurisprudence has been working around ever since. In any event, Furman jurisprudence makes no reference to guilt or innocence.
Abolishing the death penalty is the domain of the people through the legislature. Get a bill passed.
The Innocence Project because I can't get over the fact that the very first time DNA evidence proved without a doubt that the state was killing innocent people the Supreme Court didn't take the next capital case available to it and strike down the death penalty on the grounds that taking life capriciously based on a flawed epistomology is cruel.
Edit: Which the court did in 1972 out of the concern that its uneven application made it cruel and/or unusual.