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In reply to the discussion: du Pont heir didn't go to court-ordered clinic [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)And if he'd lost his in prison, or given the death penalty in some other state, what would have been said?
Just another worthless killer who won't be on the public dime, kept alive all those years after committing murder.
Since this is today's news, it ought to be an OP, but it'd sink like a stone anyway.
I imagine the hell his family went through all this time, knowing he was innocent. That their words and evidence were dismissed repeatedly. And this man, who went to prison, what it did to him. He lost the most productive years of his life, but that's not all he lost.
It reminds me of this video, and it's time that something be done:
Daniel Beaty... Knock, Knock. Who's there? We Are!
The fierce urgency of now and the long game. Daniel Beaty - Knock, Knock on Def Jam Poetry:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11876398
Centuries of racism. No, as Hank Aaron said today about the way Obama is still treated, it's not over. America needs to face up to what has been and is being done by Atwater's game.
Thanks, Beacool for posting on this travesty of justice.