Like her, love her, think she’s criminally insane, just plain stupid, idiotic, crazy like a fox, or no matter what…
Amy Bishop mug shot from Huntsville (Alabama) Police Department
there’s no denying that it continues to be exceedingly less expensive to keep a convicted criminal in jail for the rest of their natural life, including providing all humane healthcare, than it is to try a capital case – one for which the death penalty may be exacted.
Why?
The cost of mandatory appeals associated with death penalty cases, and lawyers’ time get very expensive.
It’s a crying shame that the state of Alabama has decided they do not want to pay for – because the reimbursement rate is so low, they might as well not pay for – just representation for the accused. It speaks volumes to the extremely lopsided sense of meanness – even cruelty – that have overcome many.
That statement is not meant to deny genuine representation, but to prevent abuse. Nor is it to forbid justice, but rather to assist in eliminating despiteful abuses of the system.
When one cannot pay for a case, it is justice denied.
And when one is denied justice, all are denied justice.
E pluribus unum.
Alabama wants Amy Bishop trial judge to cancel order for payments to expert witnesses
Published: Friday, February 24, 2012, 3:33 PM
Updated: Friday, February 24, 2012, 3:41 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Attorneys for the Alabama Comptroller’s Office want the judge in the Amy Bishop capital murder case to vacate his orders for payments to defense expert witnesses and testing, according to a court filing today.
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