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Amnesty?
Tyke Thomas Supanchick was convicted of killing his wife. The jury rejected Supanchick's claim that intensive military training and post traumatic stress disorder from having served at the pentagon in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attack caused him to act on "auto pilot" when he shot 25-year old Kelly Supanchick four times with a shotgun as she sat with her hands bound in front of her on a bed in her home.
President Bush said that if you know where a terrorist is you don't need a warrant, you don't need a jury. But apparently you need to remember which country you are in.
I am against amnesty.
HERE ARE THE DEFINITIONS FOR AMNESTY:
noun
1. a general pardon for offenses, esp. political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
2. Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, esp. to a class of persons as a whole.
3. a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense.
–verb (used with object)
4. to grant amnesty to; pardon.
George has to get through the first part #1 and have the trial--a fair trial. and I agree that someone accused of a crime and provided there is evidence should stand trial with a jury of their peers.
as for 2, 3 and 4. Amensty, in my opinion, once a person has been tried and convicted should be granted amnesty ONLY IF new evidence is found that proves their innocence.
For example here in Texas within the past year 16 men, some of whom have served over 20 years for rapes they never committed are being released because of DNA evidence.
Now THAT brings up the sticky wicket of reparations. Are you against them too?