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Lawyers might be tempted to offer a weak defense in death penalty cases because many execution sentences are being overturned due to attorney incompetence, the chief judge of a 4-state federal appeals court said in an opinion released Monday.
Associated Press May 05, 2005
Lawmakers
writing a new capital punishment law 2 decades ago wanted a fair system
for prosecuting the worst of the worst: killers whose crimes were so
terrible there would be no question they deserved to die.
Stanley Jalowiec has sat on death row for 10 years, insisting that authorities covered up evidence proving he is innocent.
He might be right, a judge says.
Stanley Jalowiec has sat on death row for 10 years, insisting that authorities covered up evidence proving he is innocent.
He might be right, a judge says.
Some of the oddest comments I have ever heard have come from officials who preside over executions or witness them in the State of Ohio. Andrea Dean seems to say most of the spectacular statements for Ohio.