Death Penalty Foes Disappointed

Death penalty foes were dealt a serious blow when they found out that their Cause Celeb was in fact guilty--guilty of rape, guilty of murder, guilty of being a big fat liar all the way to the chair.

James McCloskey, who heads Centurion and investigated Coleman's case, said he was "numbed by this new truth that has been revealed" and was "mystified" that Coleman had allowed so many people to believe in his innocence - and work so hard to try to prove his innocence - in spite of his guilt.

What is "mystifying" is that anyone finds it mystifying that a sociopathic rapist and murderer would also be a liar. When you have it backwards though--that a person declaring his own innocence must be innocent because criminals wouldn't claim innocence--then it must come as a shock when the "exception" happens.

Like "peace" workers kidnapped, tortured and killed while defending the enemy, some people want to deny the existence of evil at all costs. Or, they want to believe that the only evil is the big, bad government (which can be evil, big and bad, of course). This is so stupidly naive it'd be funny if so many people didn't "work so hard" to avoid acknowledging the obvious--time wasted that could be spent helping TRUE victims.

I don't want one falsely accused person to suffer one moment's of discomfort. It is wrong. This should be avoided. I favor DNA tests whenever possible. They aren't necessary to prove guilt, though--not every time.

I just wonder if these same people will apologize to the victim's family for defending a piece of excrement whose denial of responsibility compounded their grief. Nope. Time to move on to another case--another innocent man no doubt.