A lot has been said lately about wrongful convictions that landed people on death row. There has been a growing recognition in society that a lot of innocents may have been put on death row, and a lot of innocents may have been executed already.
There has been a growing recognition also that in many cases of wrongful death penalty convictions, such convictions were obtained at the time when prosecutors knew that the person they were putting on death row were factually innocent and withheld that evidence from the defense and the court.
Yet, there are not many reports of discipline against the prosecutors.
And I did not read any reports that prosecutors who KNOWINGLY put people on death row, were tried for murder (if the innocents were executed) or for attempted murder, if the innocents were either rescued from the death row or remain their awaiting an execution while the fight for their release and exoneration continues.
And my question is - WHY such prosecutors, and all members of investigative, prosecutorial and judicial teams who may have had knowledge of the factual innocence of criminal defendants who were convicted and sent to the death row are not prosecuted for attempted murder and for the actual murder?
No immunity protects from criminal prosecution.
Let's put pressure upon our representatives in the State and Federal Legislatures to pass laws making mandatory the criminal murder and attempted murder prosecutions of prosecutors and investigators who knowingly withheld exonerating evidence in death penalty cases.
There is no statute of limitations for murder, and there should be no status protection for murder.
Let's put pressure upon our representatives in State and Federal Legislatures to mandate criminal investigations and prosecutions in ANY case where exonerating evidence is withheld in criminal cases, whether in death penalty cases or not. That will bring a swift end to both prosecutorial misconduct and the position of prosecutors as coveted positions, which will only make the bench clean since now most of judges have a prosecutorial background, and thus an experience of misconduct without accountability ingrained in them as a matter of right before they come to the bench.
If such laws are passed and if a couple of prosecutors, especially well-connected ones, end up on death rows themselves, for murder no less, you will see how quickly the death penalty itself will be deemed unconstitutional and abolished.
It takes a high-ranking pig about to be "lawfully" killed by the government to for the "rule of law" to start working in this country.
So let's require that such laws be put on the books.
It's high time to end prosecutorial misconduct in this country that ruins and sometimes very literally ends people's lives.
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