Given that two thirds of those sentenced to death in the US who
have subsequently been able to get DNA tests performed on
biological evidence have been cleared; and given that in most
capital cases there is no biological evidence to test, and that even
when there is (as in the case of Rocco Derek Barbieri, scheduled
for execution in Virginia in September), the state refuses to allow
DNA tests; and given the numbers convicted solely on dubious
eyewitness testimony; and given the shockingly incompetent legal
representation some court appointed lawyers provide (all of which
issues have recently been widely covered even in the maistream
press); and given that over 650 people have been exectued in the
US since 1977: I repeat that Issodhos (and anyone who still has the
chutzpah to insist in the face of these facts that there is no serious
reason to believe that a single one of those 650+ was not guilty) is
a shameless apologist for the death penalty. His statements on the
American socioeconomic system make it clear to me that he is an
apologist for that system in general as well as for its executions.