A Texas man who said his death sentence was based on false and unscientific expert testimony was executed Thursday evening for killing a man during a robbery decades ago.
Brent Ray Brewer, 53, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the April 1990 death of Robert Laminack. The inmate was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m. local time, 15 minutes after the chemicals began flowing.
Prosecutors had said Laminack, 66, gave Brewer and his girlfriend a ride to a Salvation Army location in Amarillo when he was stabbed in the neck and robbed of $140.
Brewer’s execution came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to step in over the inmate’s claims that prosecutors had relied on false and discredited expert testimony at his 2009 resentencing trial.
It’s ok, they can just unexecute him later when new evidence comes to light, or an appeal finds that a mistake was made.
It is better to punish too many than too few, because then you have a higher degree of probability of getting the right guy! Even if it’s not “your” guy, you also increase the chance of killing someone who committed a different crime and happened to get away with it. This way, statistically, we will be a safe and healthy society, on average. It’s simple maths, people. If for every caught criminal we also punish two or three random citizens, just imagine, we would all keep each other in check and be happy.
We should also institute governmental snitch centrals, and letting people starve to death in cages hung outside the city gates, but those are optional.
Jesus wept. I ate the onion in the first sentence.
It’s pretty fucked that the argument actually resides within the Overton window.
Depends on whose Overton window.
Where I live, nah, it’s way outside… where this is happening, right in the centre at “policy”.
Ah restoring the ancient Roman practice of decimation. Brilliant! You need to present these ideas at CPAC, I’m sure you would earn a standing ovation.
When Cameron Willingham was wrongfully evening, Rick Perry changed out the chair and 2 other Members of of the forensic science commission 2 days before they were going to hold a meeting to share their findings that it was a bad kill.