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‘Compassionate’ conservatism: When it’s more important to jail innocents than let one guilty person go
In a long-ago high school civics class, I was told that our legal system is predicated on the idea that it is so important to prevent harm to one innocent person that we would rather see some of the guilty go free than punish those who have done no wrong.…
Texas delays hearing into whether executed man was innocent
AUSTIN, Texas — A court hearing to determine whether a man executed in 2004 was innocent of burning to death his three young daughters was postponed Wednesday when prosecutors asked the judge to take himself off the case. Cameron Todd Willingham’s family is seeking to have his name cleared amid…
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