Death Penalty: Quest for Justice

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala (WIAT) - Defense Attorney Richard Jaffe doesn't believe he will change minds about the death penalty with his new book out in February, Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned. But he does hope the public will at least begin to ask more questions.

Among those questions the cost of the death penalty and his belief that it does not deter crime. He also objects to the way death sentences are handed out, something he likens to a game of chance. "It's a lottery, a true lottery. You have no idea who gets it even if you knew the facts of the case first which end in execution and which don't."

Jaffe says we need to take a hard look at our justice system with 138 people let off death row after new trials. Jaffe has helped clear four death row inmates. His book profiles some of those cases. "We have to conclude others have slipped through the cracks and been executed we don't know about."

He predicts the Troy Davis case may point to the end of the death penalty. The Georgia man was executed despite widespread doubts about his guilt.

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dudleysharp - 1/8/2012 5:41 AM
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Troy Davis & The Innocent Frauds of the anti death penalty lobby Dudley Sharp The Troy Davis campaign, like many before it (1), is a simple, blatant fraud, easily uncovered by the most basic of fact checking (1). The case for Davis' guilt is overwhelming, just as were his due process protections, which may have surpassed that of all but a few death row inmates. The 2010 federal court innocence hearing found: " . . . Mr. Davis is not innocent: the evidence produced at the hearing on the merits of Mr. Davis's claim of actual innocence and a complete review of the record in this case does not require the reversal of the jury's judgment that Troy Anthony Davis murdered City of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail on August 19, 1989." (2) "Ultimately, while Mr. Davis's new evidence casts some additional, minimal doubt on his conviction, it is largely smoke and mirrors." (2) "As a body, this evidence does not change the balance of proof that was presented at Mr. Davis's trial."(2) "The vast majority of the evidence at trial remains intact, and the new evidence is largely not credible or lacking in probative value." (2) None of this came as a surprise to anyone who actually followed the case, in contrast to the Save Troy Davis folks who were, willingly, duped. 1) a) "Troy Davis: Worldwide anti death penalty deceptions, rightly, failed", http://homicidesurvivors.com/2011/09/25/troy-davis-worldwide-anti-death-penalty-deceptions-rightly-failed.aspx b) "Troy Davis fairly convicted, not 'railroaded' " http://savannahnow.com/column/2011-10-06/column-spencer-lawton-troy-davis-fairly-convicted-not-railroaded 2) "Innocence Hearing", ordered by the US Supreme Court, US DISTRICT COURT, in the SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, SAVANNAH DIV.,RE TROY ANTHONY DAVIS, CASE NO. CV409-130 http://multimedia.savannahnow.com/media/pdfs/DavisRuling082410.pdf

dudleysharp - 1/8/2012 5:31 AM
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Mr. Jaffe: What nonsense! 5) The 130 (now 139) death row "innocents" scam http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/03/04/fact-checking-issues-on-innocence-and-the-death-penalty.aspx Of all human endeavors that put innocents at risk, is there one with a better record of sparing innocent lives than the US death penalty? Unlikely. 1) "The Death Penalty: More Protection for Innocents" http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/05/the-death-penalty-more-protection-for-innocents.aspx 2) Opponents in capital punishment have blood on their hands, Dennis Prager, 11/29/05, http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2005/11/29/opponents_in_capital_punishment_have_blood_on_their_hands 3) "A Death Penalty Red Herring: The Inanity and Hypocrisy of Perfection", Lester Jackson Ph.D., http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=102909A The false innocence claims by anti death penalty activists are both blatant and legendary. Some examples: 4) "The Innocent Executed: Deception & Death Penalty Opponents" http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/10/08/the-innocent-executed-deception--death-penalty-opponents--draft.aspx Dudley Sharp

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