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From: yee@ucbvax.ARPA (Peter E. Yee)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Death penalty statistics
Message-ID: <4260@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 23:43:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 23:43:17 1985
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Reply-To: yee@ucbvax.UUCP (Peter E. Yee)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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In article <419@ihuxo.UUCP> klotz@ihuxo.UUCP (Dave Klotzbach) writes:
>2. The possibility of error. How many executed persons have been later
>   exhonerated. What is the possibility of such an error.

   How accurately could you get such statistics.  I doubt that every case in
which a man is executed is checked again later for errors.  After all, the
deed is done, why seek to raise a ruckus over the dead?

					-Peter Yee
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