Fucking hell.

So who cares if they let criminals die in other countries. Better have them dead there, then alive here I say.

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* Robert Baltovich was convicted in 1992 of the murder of Elizabeth Bain; released in 2000 to prepare an appeal based on new evidence; although he has not been officially exonerated, the Crown has not pursued the case since his release; new evidence points to Paul Bernardo, an acquaintance of Ms Bain’s, as her killer.
* James Driskell, Canadian wrongfully convicted in 1991 of the murder of Perry Harder; his conviction was quashed and the charges stayed in 2005 due to DNA testing, but he has not been fully exonerated.
* Donald Marshall, Canadian Mi’kmaq Aboriginal wrongfully convicted in 1971 of the murder of Sandy Seale; acquitted on appeal in 1983 after an additional witness to the murder came forward.
* In 1969, David Milgaard, a 16-year old, was convicted and given a life sentence for the murder of 20-year old nursing aide Gail Miller. After 23 years of imprisonment, the Supreme Court of Canada allowed for the release of Milgaard. Five years later DNA testing proved his innocence.
* Guy Paul Morin, Canadian wrongfully convicted in 1992 of the murder of Christine Jessop; he was exonerated by DNA evidence in 1995.
* Thomas Sophonow, Canadian wrongfully convicted in 1981 of the murder of Barbara Stoppel; acquitted on appeal in 1985, and conclusively exonerated by DNA evidence in 2000.
* Ronald Dalton, wrongfully convicted of murdering his late wife, Brenda Dalton in August 1988. It was later found that Brenda Dalton choked on cereal
* Steven Truscott’s wrongful conviction of murder in the death of Lynne Harper stood for 48 years before finally being overturned August 28, 2007

Yes, Scott… there are no mistakes, and nobody sentenced to.. what were the words Mr Truscott heard? “Hang from the neck until you are dead,” have been wrongfully convicted. “Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer,” says English jurist William Blackstone.

Murder by judicial error is still a murder. And murder is not something that we as Canadians support. is it? Well, it wasn’t, for quite a while.

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Manson has both arms and both legs and has, remarkably enough, not managed to kill anyone else since his incarceration.

Personally, I’m against it on moral grounds, although I’m interested to find that there appears to be some statistical evidence that it does serve as a credible deterrent.

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