MORE BLACK AMERICANS WRONGFULLY CONVICTED OF MURDER

Sometimes I wonder that there hasn't been more not less violence against whites in the United States. Last Saturday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story titled "Two jailed in 1975 murder walk free after witness recants". The witness was thirteen years old and he had been coerced by police detectives in Cleveland into testifying that three men killed businessman Harry Franks on May 19, 1975. All three men were originally sentenced to death but fortunately Ohio's capitol punishment law was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978.

Many things should be apparent. Firstly blacks are convenient scapegoats for police forces looking to close difficult cases. Secondly the U.S. judicial system is just as bad as ours here in Canada. How in the name of God do you convict someone of being guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on no more evidence than a frightened thirteen yaer old can unreliably provide. Thirdly how many others have been wrongfully committed of crimes and since executed by the state never to have had anything approaching justice in their cases. This is a blight and a scandal both in Canada and the United Staets that continues to this day. Shame on both our federal governments as well as provincial and state governments who quite obviously don't give a shit.