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Wednesday 21st of January 2026

By the numbers The number of people whose convictions or sentences have been overturned since the end of the moratorium on executions? 3059. Since 1977, more than twice as many people on death row have been exonerated as have been executed. In fact, more than one third of all people sentenced to death by American governments since 1973 have been exonerated—so far. Salvatore Babones, Sixteen for '16 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Of the 455 men executed for rape between 1930 and 1972, 405 were African American. The Guardian, October 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice In Kentucky, fully one quarter of the prisoners on death row had lawyers at trial who were later  disbarred or resigned to avoid disbarment. As one critic said, the Strickland [v. Washington ] standard, in the real world, requires the state to provide little more than “a warm body with a law degree.” Adam Cohen, Supreme Inequality © 2021 Kwiple.com
Death penalty Few doubted the morality of the death penalty in the age that believed in the divine right of kings. Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death penalty Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached. attributred to Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Death penalty The more Christian a country is the less  likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral. … I attribute that to the fact that, for a believing Christian, death is no big deal. Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com