BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Guy_Fawkes Guy_Fawkes:
How about stopping executions?
Better yet, how about the criminals stop killing people and then making the whole topic moot?
And yet Bart, we, and most of the civilized world, don't kill em and we have less murderers per capita than you do. And nobody who's innocent gets killed. How about the US figure out what the rest of us have?
Looks like Illinois did just that:
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Illinois abolishes death penalty, clears death row...In his comments, the governor returned often to the fact that 20 people sent to death row had seen their cases overturned after evidence surfaced that they were innocent or had been convicted improperly.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_re_us/us_death_penalty_illinois