DNA to Be Retested for Man Executed in '92

Little fucking late for an apology isn't it?

Death penalty opponents praised Gov. Mark R. Warner's order for DNA testing that could determine whether Virginia sent an innocent man to the electric chair in 1992.

I don't think Hallmark makes a card for this.

Boy is our face red
DNA has brought the truth to us
now that we made him dead
you can get millions if you sue us

If the tests show Roger Keith Coleman did not rape and kill his sister-in-law in 1981, it will mark the first time in the United States that an executed person has been scientifically proved innocent.

And mark the millionth time we've proved our legal system ineffective. I say if he's found innocent, we should gather up the jurors from his trial and beat them publicy. Hey, they made the wrong choice there. Should be some sort of punishment no?

His attorneys argued that he did not have time to commit the crime, that tests showed semen from two men was found inside McCoy and that another man bragged about murdering her. Coleman was executed May 20, 1992.
Four newspapers and Centurion Ministries, a New Jersey organization that investigated Coleman's case and became convinced of his innocence, sought a court order to have the evidence retested. The Virginia Supreme Court declined to order the testing in 2002, so Centurion Ministries asked Warner to intervene.

So what do we do if it winds up Mr. Coleman was innocent? Do we award money to his family? Do we search for the killer or killers that have gotten away with rape and murder? Do we blame music and movies and everything except the flawed legal system?

Maybe everytime we prove an innocent man died for a crime he did not commit we pardon a killer guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. That way we even it out. Either way you look at it, killing an innocent man, even if it's only once, justifies a long, long look at our death penatly system. If the man was still in prison, he could be let go. Can't dig him up and send him on his way now.

We should look at our need for "closure" in this country. Do we really need to kill our criminals? I'm not for the death penatly, but then again, I agree some people aren't worth the effort to keep incarcerated and deserve a few posionous fluids injected into their veins. Touchy subject but one that deserves to be looked at under a microscope. If we killed an innocent man, we need to make sure it doesn't happen again.

But if it comes back he WAS guilty lets get that chair recharging.