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The US regime just executed another innocent black man. (innocenceproject.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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https://innocenceproject.org/cases/marcellus-williams/

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's fine with a sentence of a couple years. But for how hard we've seen it become to commute a sentence, we need to be 100% sure for the death penalty.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I basically said that it is not okay, maybe you should have read the second sentence as well. But even with a "sentence of a couple years", guilt has to be profen, not innocence. If there is plausible doubt of guilt, there shouldn't be a guilty sentence.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, sorry it's just worded weirdly and I didn't get that you were referencing the reasonable doubt standard.