Gabe Menezes wrote: > RESPONSE: Wow the USA must be some place! A place where those found guilty are indeed truly guilty and there was not a case in the USA of a miscarriage of justice. > Cornel DaCosta wrote: > Gabe Miscarriage of justice takes place in all countries including those deemed advanced like the UK. For Mario to suggest that this does not happen in the USA indicates how little he knows. > Mario adds: > What the above two anti-Americans are referring to as a "miscarriage of justice" is that some persons sentenced to die were found to be not guilty during the appeals process. However, because the appeals process is mandatory, paid for by the government and limitless as long as there is a legal basis, it is also part of the same justice system that initially may have wrongly convicted the person. The point is there are ample checks and balances before some is executed in the USA. > The opponents of the death penalty in the USA have tried for years to insinuate that some innocent people have been executed. In fact, there has not been a single PROVEN case where an innocent person was found to have been executed. The allegations and conspiracy theories were all found to be false. Anyone wrongly convicted and sentenced initially were able to prove this during the appeals process. > Persons sentenced to die in the US are provided with government paid lawyers for their appeals which are mandatory. The average length of time for these appeals is somewhere around 12 years, and in some cases up to 20 years. There is no limit to these appeals, as long as there is some legal basis. This gives the convict every opportunity to show that he or she was not guilty. > >
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