Several high profile cases are among those set to be arraigned in Pike County superior court Tuesday, Feb. 9, before Judge Christopher Edwards.
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Tue, May 14, 2013 - 02:16 PM
It IS disturbing and a picture is worth a thousand words. Pike needs animal control.
Tue, May 14, 2013 - 01:40 PM
Three horses owned by this family have been attacked by dogs - only one was killed. I did not use the graphic pict [...]
Tue, May 14, 2013 - 10:57 AM
This picture of the dead horse is pretty disturbing. Why did you find it necessary to post that? The story is incr [...]
Mon, May 13, 2013 - 09:30 AM
I agree. I live on Melville Brown Rd and over the years have had to deal with abandoned animals. I am fed up. I ha [...]
Sun, May 12, 2013 - 08:03 AM
This exactly why Pike County needs a Animal Control Facility.
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We need to bring back immediate public hangings when someone is convicted of a capital crime.
As of Nov. 3, 2009, there have been 139 exonerations in 26 different states, including five in Georgia, according to The Death Penalty Information Center. There is a reason for the process in place.
Don't get me wrong, those who truly commit capital crimes should face the consequences of their actions. But the judicial process involves people, and people - even with the best of intentions - can be fallible.
But if what you post is true, I think the reason is that there is no immediate consequence. If there was, prosecuters would be more diligent and the innocent would hire better lawyers.
As of Nov, 2009....139 exonerations have been granted. Ok, so let’s subtract that number from the number of inmates incarcerated in the USA as in 2008, 2,424,279. 139 people in how many years? Not just in 2009? Hummm...let’s see
2,424,279 - 139 = 2,424,140
Hardly seems to be a monumental factor in comparison to the reintroduction of capital punishment. The sheer numbers of incarcerated speak volumes and the message is the legal system is not reducing or projecting an effective deterrent to crime.
In response to "Observer of the observer," Wow! What if it was someone you knew on death row and you truly believed that person was wrongly convicted? Would you not take advantage of the process of appeals in place? And how does the death of an innocent person save lives? Does facing the possibility of a speeding ticket keep a lot of people from speeding? Just drive along Highway 19 and see.
And Mathematician, compare apples to apples - people on death row to those exonerated, not the total of those incarcerated to those exonerated of a capital crime.
I am speaking of a process, not of the laws and punishment. Criminals should be punished. I just happen to think we basically have a sound judicial process.
"Now all we can do is wait as our world self-destructs as we watch from behind the glass."
I did a bit more research and there are at least 3 different sites including the one you reference that claim different numbers.
All of these sites including the one you referenced are places that work to exonerate those "wrongly" convicted.
Could these figures be self-serving?
Oh and for the numbers death row inmates represent 1/4 of 1% (6061). So 139 would be a 2.2% error rate.
Do you have any official statistics on the subject?