3/6: TX death row

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Originally posted by Chewbaccus
As such, I'm not such a capital punishment enthusiast that I would turn my ideas loose on such a system. We ARE talking about a human life, and if it is to be taken, we should be damned sure that it deserves to be. Public opinion is far too rickety a thing to lay so heavy a burden upon.

I once had nothing above to disagree with. Then I saw PBS Frontline that concentrated in particular on a TX legal system. That after reading same from other sources changed my mind. The above is correct, in theory. But the practical application is seriously flawed - especially the part where prosecutors routinely try to stifle and obstruct 'after conviction' evidence, trials where the defense attorney actually sleeps in court and an appeals court has no problem with that fact, and cases where the convicted man has been found not guilty when he finally does gets cooperation from a DA.