[89978] in Cypherpunks
Yeah, but you can do anything with statistics... / WAS: Troublemaking Bleeding Heart Liberals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TruthMonger)
Fri Nov 14 00:46:12 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:47:30 -0600
From: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
* In July, a group of lawyers and state legislators petitioned the
Illinois Supreme Court to halt all executions immediately and
appoint a commission to study why, in the 20 years since the state
reinstituted the death penalty, more death row convicts have been
subsequently been found innocent and freed (9) than have been
executed (8).
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