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2016 Postmortem

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Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 04:50 PM Mar 2016

Hillary Clinton is FOR the Death Penalty! That's not very progressive. [View all]

This is just a list of people EXONERATED by new evidence since the year 2000, after serving years, decades, some of them half their lives!

* Earl Washington, Jr., Virginia (pardoned). Convicted 1994
* Juan Roberto Melendez-Colon, Florida. Convicted 1984.
* Ray Krone, Arizona (State v. Krone, 897 P.2d 621 (Ariz. 1995) (en banc)). Convicted 1992.
* Nicholas Yarris, Pennsylvania Convicted 1982.
* John Thompson, Louisiana. Convicted 1985.
* Alan Gell, North Carolina. Convicted 1995.
* Glen Edward Chapman, North Carolina. Convicted 1995. ]
* Levon "Bo" Jones, North Carolina. Convicted 1993.
* Michael Blair, Texas. Convicted 1994.
* Nathson Fields, Illinois. Convicted 1986.
* Paul House, Tennessee. Convicted 1986.
* Daniel Wade Moore, Alabama. Convicted 2002.
* Ronald Kitchen, Illinois. Convicted 1988.
* Michael Toney, Texas. Convicted 1999.
* Joe D'Ambrosio, Ohio. Convicted 1989.
* Anthony Graves, Texas. Convicted 1994.
* Gussie Vann, Tennessee. Convicted 1984
* Damon Thibodeaux, Louisiana. Convicted 1997.
* Seth Penalver, Florida. Convicted 1994.
* Reginald Griffin, Missouri. Convicted 1983.
* Glenn Ford, Louisiana. Convicted 1984.
* Carl Dausch, Florida. Convicted 2011.
* Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown, North Carolina. Convicted 1984.
* Ricky Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman, Ohio. Convicted 1975.
* Kwame Ajamu (formerly Ronnie Bridgeman), Ohio. Convicted 1975.
* Debra Milke, Arizona. Convicted 1990.
* Anthony Ray Hinton, Alabama. Convicted 1985.
* Willie Manning, Mississippi. Convicted 1996.
* Alfred Brown, Texas. Convicted 2005.
* Lawrence William Lee, Georgia. Convicted 1987.
* Derral Wayne Hodgkins, Florida. Convicted 2013.
* William Antunes, Massachusetts. Convicted 1990.


This list doesn't include the people that were executed, and found to be innocent after the fact. Nor does it list the people that were executed that we will never really know if they too were wrongly killed.

But Hillary says the issue is "complex". How can her reasoning that we keep the death penalty be any more "complex" than the government sanctioned murder of innocent men and women?

I wonder what HRC supporters think about this 'complex issue"?
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