Sunday, April 14, 2013
Late to the game
Wash state is passing an important law. We're behind the curve on this one, considering that Wash is responsible for a large percentage of recent grave injustice.
Even better: require the persecuting attorney and the false accuser to serve 1000 years at hard labor, with 80 lashes per day, for each microsecond of wrongful imprisonment. It still wouldn't come anywhere near compensating, but it might motivate one or two persecutors to avoid doing evil. (Well, actually it wouldn't. Persecuting attorneys are unreformable.)
Wash state is passing an important law. We're behind the curve on this one, considering that Wash is responsible for a large percentage of recent grave injustice.
A bill that would make wrongly convicted inmates eligible to receive $50,000 for each year they served behind bars cleared another hurdle in the state Legislature on Tuesday. House Bill 1341... moves on to the Senate Rules Committee and a possible floor vote. The measure was passed out of the House last month on a 95-2 vote.Late to the game, but still a good move.
Under the legislation, wrongly convicted death row inmates would receive an additional $50,000. It would also provide $25,000 per year spent on parole or as a registered sex offender. Federal law currently requires payments of $50,000 per year for those wrongfully detained in a federal prison. If the measure is approved by the full Senate and signed by Gov. Jay Inlsee, Washington would join 27 other states with similar legislation.
Even better: require the persecuting attorney and the false accuser to serve 1000 years at hard labor, with 80 lashes per day, for each microsecond of wrongful imprisonment. It still wouldn't come anywhere near compensating, but it might motivate one or two persecutors to avoid doing evil. (Well, actually it wouldn't. Persecuting attorneys are unreformable.)
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