On Prosecutors Protecting Wrongful Convictions

"I’ve made the argument before that convicting an innocent person of murder ought to be treated like a doctor who amputates the wrong limb. If it wasn’t intentional, perhaps it shouldn’t be a criminal offense. But it should end that person’s career. Yet to actively work to preserve bad convictions, and to work to keep information about those cases from becoming public, is another matter entirely," writes Radley Balko today in the Washington Post.

With a hat tip to Mark Godsey at the Wrongful Convictions blog, I ask Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne to read a book: Who Killed Sarah? A True Story of Injustice.

I would be happy to email Mr. Ozanne a copy, if you are reading this. Your office is protecting a wrongful prosecution, and I suspect a man of your intellect realizes this fact.

Your office can afford to be just.

Europe, World, Some Americans Outraged by Cold-blooded Oklahoma State Killing

"The Daily Telegraph, a right-leaning newspaper in Britain, wrote that 'America is missing the point,' which is about 'the very concept of killing in cold blood' and not about the method." (Erlanger. New York Times)

Something about capital punishment cuts right through the blindness, the repulsive and obtuse contrivance so many Americans build, shaming the species.

Musing about the method through which Americans kill more than misses the point, it commits another crime and makes fools out of the country, as the civilized world grows more disgusted with the USA.