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I did look - without particularly wanting to! I never once said the US legal system was any good - if those people were in fact not guilty, their successful appeals should have been heard much quicker.

This is where the US has got it wrong on both counts. Keeping somebody on death row for years is inhuman (and poor value for money!) If you're going to have a death penalty it should be carried out reasonably quickly - not quite a gallows out the back of the court though! Fast track appeal...

I do wish you would check what a post is replying to before interpreting it to suit your own subjective views. Some idiot was saying what good value it was to keep people locked up for life. The fact is it may be morally justifiable, but in pure economic terms it isn't; there is no return on the...

................in a most stupid and flippant way. Whether for the death penalty or not, do you seriously think that spending a few million over the course of their lifetime to keep them warm, fed, clothed and cared for - although it may be considered morally justifiable - is good value for...

.....or of course that it was all done by fairies from Mars who implanted the memories of doing it into their innocent brains...... I think we can be 100% sure she didn't consent, though, poor lass.

I'm sure some sort of panel (not entirely made up of legal bods) with a specific brief to overturn any death sentences in which they could find the tiniest trace of doubt could do a job. Won't happen though. It's time life meant solitary confinement until you die though. Until that happens...