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Originally Posted by miraja2
The problem with that is there have been cases where people have confessed to capital crimes, and then it turned out later that they didn't do it. That is hard for most people to understand, because they think "why the hell would somebody confess to something they didn't do? I would never do that."
The problem lies in the fact that not everyone's mind works the same. Some people are mentally incompetent, or some people react very differently to lenghty and tough police questioning (even when the police do everything legally). Although a confession seems like incontrovertible evidence....it isn't in all cases. If the state puts somebody to death on the grounds of that evidence, it could certainly turn out that they actually executed an innocent person who (for whatever reason) gave a false confession.
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I also dont believe that people with mental disabilities should be put to death.
(and I'm talking Mental Retardation, not sociopaths)
Wasnt there another case in Texas where a man with Mental Retardation was given the death penalty for killing someone?
That, to me, is wrong.