Comments on: … To be hanged by the neck until dead http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1199 James Mon, 22 May 2006 06:12:52 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1199 Eyewitness testimony is actually the least reliable. Short of DNA evidence I would have a hard time sentencing anypone to death. I much prefer the exile method.

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1198 Brad Warbiany Mon, 22 May 2006 01:13:29 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1198 Chris,

I think I’m in about perfect agreement with you, and to some extent, Penn & Teller. I think that certain offenses are worthy of getting you removed from society “with extreme prejudice”, but don’t necessarily trust the government to get it right.

Were I to be on a jury, I don’t think I could in good conscience sentence someone to death without some tremendously strong evidence. We’re talking eyewitness testimony from one (or hopefully more) credible witnesses. Right now we see folks getting sentenced to death on circumstancial evidence, like Scott Peterson. I think he probably did it, but I’m sure as hell not sure enough of that fact to see him get the Kevorkian cocktail…

]]> By: Chris Byrne http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1194 Chris Byrne Sun, 21 May 2006 18:38:34 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1194 Oh and good website. Hurricane was a seriously unbalanced presentation of the story (the song and the movie).

I don’t know if he did it, and clearly the trial and evidence were poorly handled (thus he most likely should not have been convicted), but you can’t really say he was “railroaded” etc…

The fact is, it is today, and was then, easier to convict a black man with a criminal history of a crime whether they commited it or not. Rubin Carter was a violent, and unstable man with a criminal history; and thus an easy target.

]]> By: Chris Byrne http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1193 Chris Byrne Sun, 21 May 2006 18:33:45 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1193 The attribution is from the second trial, and (accurate or not – it was from newspaper accounts referenced during the run of the movie “Hurricane”), I’m assuming was influenced by the song.

]]> By: L. Manning http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1192 L. Manning Sun, 21 May 2006 18:30:19 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/20/to-be-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/#comment-1192 Your reference to a black juror in the Carter trial saying that the “n**** must be crazy” is probably from the Bob Dylan ballad “Hurricane,” which includes the line, “And to the black folks he was just a crazy n****.” The line is actually Carter’s explanation for why there was no outcry from the black community in Paterson New Jersey when he was arrested and doesn’t refer to jurors as such. There was only one black juror in the first trial. More than 12 jurors were impanelled for the trial and when lots were drawn, this juror did not serve on the final panel. Interviewed afterward, he said that he thought that he would have voted “not guilty.” There were two black jurors in the second trial. They both voted “guilty.”

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