HOF44 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010501597.html DNA Testing Ordered on Executed Man By Maria Glod and Michael D. Shear Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, January 5, 2006; 6:48 PM Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) has ordered DNA testing that could prove the guilt or innocence of a man executed in 1992, marking the first time a governor has asked for genetic testing of someone already put to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumodat Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 This should be interesting! I am against the death penalty because I don't think ANY man is entitled to end another man's life. I sure hope the man who was executed turns out to be the person who committed the crime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslowalrob Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 This is an outrage! All Virginia conservatives must rise up and battle this travashamockery, considering that they have been opposing this stuff for 8 years! Virginians don't need no fancy, big-city DNA testing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gichin13 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Interesting move by Warner. I applaud his use of testing thus far that has resulted in several innocent people being released from jail. Can you imagine sitting in jail convicted of a rape or murder you did not commit for 20 years, let alone getting the chair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosperity Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 This is an outrage! All Virginia conservatives must rise up and battle this travashamockery, considering that they have been opposing this stuff for 8 years! Virginians don't need no fancy, big-city DNA testing... :laugh: We'll see what comes out of this, sooner rather than later, hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslowalrob Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 :laugh: We'll see what comes out of this, sooner rather than later, hopefully. Oh God, I remember back in high school I would read this awful pamphlets about guys trying to have DNA evidence used to exonorate them, and the Repubs fighting the move claw, tooth, and nail. Then bam, six years later the SAME person in my pamphlet gets released, while I frolicked in college. Six years of his life were stolen, and even a punk kid like me knew that DNA evidence should have been used way earlier. At leats he is out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I remember this case. The day after the guy was executed, there was a report in some local newspaper (Loudoun Times Mirror, Leesburg Today or one of the Winchester rags) that a person had called the paper and admitted that HE was the real criminal. Good for Warner for doing this. I hope it leads to less exec utions and eventually stopping the use of Cap Punishment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEJ2200 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I'm curious..... It will be interesting to see the type of media coverage this gets when the results come in - favorable or unfavorable.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSteve Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I think Warner is preparing to run for president. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I'm curious.....It will be interesting to see the type of media coverage this gets when the results come in - favorable or unfavorable.... It will get a lot of coverage, either way, because there are loud voices on each side of the capital punishment debate who will trumpet the result if it "favors" their point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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