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Keep Life Without Parole, Life After Death

Barack-A-Sorros Wrote: Aug 02, 2009 6:07 AM

Many people believe DNA evidence has freed innocent people on death row because that is what the Liberal media tells them.

This is simply not true.

Listen up! DNA evidence can never, I repeat, never prove anyone innocent.

If your DNA is in a woman I raped and murdered, does that mean I am innocent?

That is what the Liberal media would have you believe.

Its simply not true.

Because courts can sentence murderers to life without parole, why not get rid of the death penalty? It's a frequent question posed by readers and advocates who oppose the death penalty. For years, my answer has been: If death-penalty opponents ever succeed in eliminating capital punishment, their next target for elimination will be life without parole -- or as lawyers call it, LWOP.

As if to prove my point, the Sentencing Project just released a report, "No Exit: The Expanding Use of Life Sentences in America," which advocated for -- you guessed it -- the elimination of LWOP. The report...

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