Jimmie “Chris” Duncan walked out of the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center and into the arms of his parents last week after spending the last 27 years on death row.
Seven months ago, a Louisiana district court judge vacated his murder conviction for killing his former girlfriend’s toddler, citing doubts about the evidence used to convict him. The judge granted bail after multiple legal delays, including an unsuccessful request by prosecutors to the Louisiana Supreme Court to stop his release. Now free, Duncan spent Thanksgiving with his family — then celebrated his 57th birthday the next day.
But Duncan’s journey to freedom is far from over. Prosecutors have asked the state Supreme Court to reinstate his death sentence. Duncan’s attorneys declined to make him immediately available for an interview.
Treason.
That’s the one. If you fight your own country from within, that’s treason. Death by hanging.
I see this as the same allowing prisoners to vote, it protects against governments passing rules to unfairly criminalise something.
Agreed, and legal systems that deny anyone the right to vote are not democracies.
Prisoners are members of society and therefore have the right to vote in any democracy. Even treason and mass murder do not justify removing their right to vote. The only scenario where prisoners voting would have a disproportionate impact are are prisons in low population remote locations, which could easily be worked around by their residency being based on their location before incarceration.
not to get in the way of ur patriotic fervor, but what constitutes
fightinghereIn the broad sense.
so like voting for the other guy?
Look I am all about armed revolution, allegedly, so.