Professional lunatic Ann Coulter spreads her special brand of idiocy during a televised discussion about the death penalty, wrongful convictions and the possibility that innocent men may have been executed. Coulter and others discuss the trial and execution of Joe O'Dell. During this television broadcast, Ann Coulter laughing dismisses virtually all of the important points in the debate regarding O'Dell's execution. She resorts to the same tried and tired arguments used by those who blindly defend capital punishment - the absolutely baseless claim that no innocent person has ever been executed. In truth, common sense alone dictated that at least one innocent person had been killed since the country began executing the convicted. Several studies, including a 1987 study conducted by Stanford University, concluded that at least 23 innocent men may have been executed. Since the advent of DNA technology, more than 100 men have been exonerated and released from prison - many were serving on death row and some even came close to being executed. In most instances, these individuals had been convicted using weak circumstantial evidence, suspect eyewitness testimony, and other problematic evidence. DNA and other direct evidence often proved that witnesses were wrong when they had identified the suspect, and, in some instances, DNA evidence has not only exonerated the wrongfully convicted but also identified the real killer. Based on these statistics, the aforementioned studies, and ...
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