Casey Anthony and the Death Penalty
July 10th, 2011
By Tom Carter There’s all kinds of talk in the media and among people in general about the Casey Anthony case. Mostly, there’s anger about the fact that she was acquitted on the charges of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter. The most outraged are the TV talking heads, many of them […]
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Tags: Casey Anthony, death penalty, evidence, innocence, justice, mistakes
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The Tragedy of Innocence
December 18th, 2009
By Tom Carter How can it be tragic to be innocent? Perhaps when someone has been wrongly convicted of a crime and spends many years in prison, sometimes on death row, only to be freed when it’s found that he didn’t commit the crime. I recently read John Grisham’s The Innocent Man. This book was a departure […]
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Tags: death penalty, DNA, Fritz, Grisham, innocence, Oklahoma, Williamson
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