>>54667492> Should death penalty be abolished?Yes.
> If so, why?I have no moral issue with executing a guilty person but I do have a problem with the legal system and the fact that it is nowhere near trustworthy enough to grant it the power to execute anyone;
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/08/justice/new-york-wrongful-conviction/index.htmlCNN
Wed April 9, 2014
Jonathan Fleming, convicted in killing despite vacation alibi, freed after 24 years
A New York judge Tuesday vacated the conviction of a man who spent nearly a quarter of a century behind bars for a Brooklyn slaying that occurred while he was vacationing in Florida.
Jonathan Fleming, 51, was found guilty in 1989 in the death of Darryl Rush in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn and served the next 24 years and 8 months in prison, according to the Kings County district attorney's office. He was released Tuesday afternoon.
Fleming has always maintained he was on a family trip to Disney World in Florida when Rush was shot to death early on the morning of August 15, 1989, in a dispute over stolen money. After years of reviewing documents and re-interviewing witnesses as part of a joint investigation between his attorneys and the Brooklyn district attorney's Conviction Review Unit, it was determined that the only evidence tying him to the crime was an alleged witness who later recanted her statement.
