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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Reading about it I am not completly convinced that he is innocent, but I think that there is 100% plausible reason to doubt that he is guilty. This should defintly be enough to stop an execution.

Edit: Maybe read the whole statement before getting a rage fit? I said he shouldn't have been killed. I am also not moderate and (according to US standards) I am apparently not white as a muslim turkish person.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I'm convinced he is innocent. If he was not they would have evidence instead of paid testimonies against him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's fine with a sentence of a couple years. But for how hard we've seen it become to commute a sentence, we need to be 100% sure for the death penalty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I basically said that it is not okay, maybe you should have read the second sentence as well. But even with a "sentence of a couple years", guilt has to be profen, not innocence. If there is plausible doubt of guilt, there shouldn't be a guilty sentence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, sorry it's just worded weirdly and I didn't get that you were referencing the reasonable doubt standard.