Robert Coleman is still guilty, and still dead ...

Once again, the looney anti-capital punishment crowd end up with more egg on their face, now that yet another set of DNA results solidify the fact that this guy brutally raped and murdered his sister-in-law.

Oops!

Pro-capital punishment blogs and sites are shouting the news from the highest rooftops ... especially since this guy seemed to have been the biggest and best shot they ("anti" crowd) had at proving an "innocent" man died.


I have argued over and over again (here and elsewhere), that the personification of this issue, particularly by trying to "humanize" and soften the perps, is a disasterous course of action that will only serve to push more people to the "pro" side. The people that are put to death overwhelmingly do, in fact, deserve to die ... that is not the problem with this form of punishment. The problem is that there are an awful lot of people in the system that, when they do deserve to die for doing essentially the same things, are not even subject to the same degree of punishment ... particularly the rich and powerful.

Now do not go down the path of pulling out the pictures of the "poor" black perps ... again they still deserved what they got. To some extent the statistics about the demographics of the perps are a step in the right direction, but these are falling on deaf ears for a completely different reason ... the poverty pimps like Jackson, Farrakhan and Sharpton have been playing those cards for so long that people are now totally innoculated against the numbers.

The REAL story to this, in my humble opinion, and the one that the Anti- crowd should zero in on, is the huge effort of various representatives of the government to stop the DNA testing. Now, I do not pretend to know all of their motivations, some of their opposition admittedly could be legitimate and I admit that the only result of testing "after-the-fact" is to totally humiliate the prosecuters.

Nonetheless, I have seen where there have been attempts to ban confirmation testing where the perp has not received the punishment yet! We have got to demand to know exactly why they would not want to do everything that is humanly possible to make sure we are not taking out the wrong person.

THIS is the best case against capital punishment ... the inherent, systematic corruption of the individuals involved and the system itself.