<p>"Yea, white guys that got away..like OJ."</p>
<p>Yeah, he would fit squarely under the "rich and famous" category. Rich and famous enough to get all that publicity, and to buy the best defense lawyer in the country. Very few people - black or white - are that famous enough to pull that off. I'd argue that more white people, however, are rich enough to do something similar.</p>
<p>Lets live in a blissful state of ingorance forever, ebonytear...</p>
<p>i agree to your 1st post drew00, im not bother to read the rest.</p>
<p>im pretty sure that the majority of the people on death row in my state (NC) are blacks who "killed" whites and whites that killed whites. i dont remember the exact number but the prevalence of blacks on death row has alot less to do with the race/ethnicity of the "murderer" but rather the race of the victim.</p>
<p>also, i guess someone has already said this, but again im not botherring to look.<br>
there is no such thing as an absolute truth. alot of pro-life people are conservative christians. and i am a liberal christian. i know there is no such thing as an absolute truth and u can use science, i.e. dna tests, to justify an "absolute truth" but u can never know for sure. in the context of the present times, yes, it is absolute but you never know if in 40 years a new form of technology more precise can dispell the truth. the only One that i believe can know the truth is God. if man didnt take the job of being god on earth, then there probably wouldnt be so many abuses of our judicial system.</p>
<p>and if you dont agree with me on the religious side. then there are logistically factors...no one can say that the judicial system as it is today is perfect or even close to it. therefore, why should someone's life be up to something so flawed? case in point. last year in N.C. one man was killed on the death row. our gov. easley (a "democrat") was the prosecutor in his case. the man was accused of killing and raping to white women. the local paper, news and observer, decided that they would feature this story b/c the man claimed to be innocent until he died. they were given everything that the D.A. had and they looked. they were going to give him a full page on how he was guily or a full page on how the legal system had "failed" him. upon further examination it came out that he had a record. in fact he was in jail on the day that the murder "occurred" the n&o gave him what they promised a page on how the legal system had failed him. when the time came for appeal much later on after easley became gov. he would not allow new evidence to be entered in. and the man was killed on death row.
people say easley was up for election, didn't want to admit to being wrong, etc.<br>
my point is, a man's life should never be determined by another because people aren't perfect and do make mistakes.</p>