Death Row man released after 30 years

Koptain Liverpool

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/louisiana-man-walks-free-after-three-decades-on-death-row-1.1721820

How could you recover after being locked up for 30 years for something you didn't do??

Of course it would be great to be finally exonerated and finally released.

But how would you control the bitterness at having been locked up for the best years of your life???

Do these guys get millions in compensation? I hope so. although I seem to remember that the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 didn't get too much.

tritium

I seem to remember that John grisham wrote a book about a wrongful conviction case in the US and was at pains to point out in it that its very difficult to get ANY compensation when this happens. Basically you have to show that there was a flaw in the process that convicted you, its not enough hat they got the wrong result and took a chunk of your life

MS.ing

the better question is how did he stay on death row for 30 years. must be a magician or something

ZiabR

That story sickens me...

sillyoulfool

And still we will have threads demanding the re-introduction of the death penalty here.
:mad:

REXER

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/louisiana-man-walks-free-after-three-decades-on-death-row-1.1721820

How could you recover after being locked up for 30 years for something you didn't do??

Of course it would be great to be finally exonerated and finally released.

But how would you control the bitterness at having been locked up for the best years of your life???

Do these guys get millions in compensation? I hope so. although I seem to remember that the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 didn't get too much.

LOL... If this happened here in Ireland the state would be after him for the expenses incurred in keeping him locked up for 30 years!

Penny Tration

The poor man. How can he ever go back to a normal life?

recyclops

man was convicted by all-white jury over 1983 murder of Louisiana watchmaker

Well i guess he did his time :o

No money in the world could compensate for that. Poor guy is probably so institutionalised that reintegration into normal society is going to be a huge challenge for him.

I'd hate to be one of the jury members now, knowing I'd contributed to a man losing the best years of his life.

And again, at least he still has life to life. If death penalty was applied this horrible injustice might never have come to light, further validating that vile process.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i dont see what the colour of the jury has to do with anything, evidence was witheld. that's the scandal.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

i dont see what the colour of the jury has to do with anything, evidence was witheld. that's the scandal.

It's probably a wider comment on the general malaise of racism that pervaded the system 30 years ago.

A jury of your peers might be reasonably considered to contain members of your own race, although it wouldn't necessarily be my thinking on the matter. It would be more pertinent in the context of Louisiana three decades ago.

keeponhurling

Man convicted by all-white jury

I wonder what they are implying here

sillyoulfool

keeponhurling wrote: »

I wonder what they are implying here

The obvious, what is generally known to all that have studied the US justice system, it is institutionally and inherently racist.

Reekwind

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

i dont see what the colour of the jury has to do with anything, evidence was witheld. that's the scandal.

The fact that this was an all-white jury in a city like Shreveport shows how institutionally the odds were/are stacked against a poor black man in America. And then lo and behold the jury goes ahead and convicts him of a crime that carried the death penalty despite the very shaky nature of the prosecution's evidence.

keeponhurling

recyclops wrote: »

Well i guess he did his time :o

turns out thery were only winding him up all along, and the pendulum has now swung in his favour. all those years inside must have driven him cuckoo.
he must be rightly ticked off



.......gets coat

tin79

recyclops wrote: »

Well i guess he did his time :o

Hands down. Unless you post is a wind up.