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Post by warofwords on Jan 26, 2009 4:38:27 GMT
Four forensic pathologists agree that Larry Swearingen, set to be executed Tuesday, could not have committed the 1998 murder that sent him to death row. The four include the medical examiner whose testimony helped secure Swearingen's guilty verdict. That medical examiner now says college student Melissa Trotter's curiously preserved body could not have lain in the East Texas woods for more than 14 days — and probably was there for a much shorter time. The results mean Swearingen was in jail when the 19-year-old's body was left behind, the pathologists say. "It's just scientifically impossible for him to have killed the girl and thrown her into the woods," said James Rytting, Swearingen's appellate lawyer. "It's guilt by imagination." www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/24/0124swearingen.htmlLike so many before him and so many after him he will be just another innocent murdered legally ....Disgusting |
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Post by lawrence on Jan 26, 2009 4:48:57 GMT
Let us hope that next time it is your daughteror loved one lying and rotting in the woods and then we can hear your heart bleed for the murderer. assshole.
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Post by warofwords on Jan 26, 2009 5:04:18 GMT
So you support the murder of the person who ISN'T responsible ?
If it were my daughter ,I would want the person who commited the vile act brought to justice ......nabbing the wrong person wouldn't satisfy me
What a Jerk
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Post by lawrence on Jan 26, 2009 6:17:41 GMT
Jury found him guilty. Oh so a few professional witnesses claim some bullcrap alibi and you assume that is it. Nonsense. A jury has sat on the case , day to day and reviewed all the evidence, piece by piece and has decided he is guilty. Fry him.
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Post by warofwords on Jan 26, 2009 10:41:58 GMT
The jury decided his guilt because of the testimony of those 'few professionals ' ..........Those 'few professionals now admit they got it terribly wrong .
Yet you still want him to fry ..........
Non Compus Mentus
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Post by tarrant on Jan 26, 2009 11:56:04 GMT
Being in Prison when the event occured?  ? Doesn't sound very bull crap to me. By your reasoning you are also guilty. You are kindly requested to connect yourself to the National Grid without delay. |
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Post by kjetski on Jan 26, 2009 11:57:12 GMT
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Post by warofwords on Jan 26, 2009 12:17:04 GMT
Scientific fact doesn't lie , the spleen and the pancreas liquify soon after death , this girl was intact meaning it is impossible for her to have been dead in the woods for 10+days ......ruling this man out as he was already in prison ! |
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Post by kjetski on Jan 26, 2009 12:31:54 GMT
She was examined for that. The original pathologist did a fine job. Did you read the prosecuters motion?
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Post by warofwords on Jan 26, 2009 12:34:39 GMT
The person who performed the autopsy is one of the 4 pathologists who say he could not have commited the murder !
What original pathologist are you refering ?
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Post by kjetski on Jan 26, 2009 18:43:47 GMT
The subsequant courts did not believe Larry. He will get the prune juice...
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Post by Libby on Jan 26, 2009 20:56:37 GMT
Sounds completely implausible that he did it to me! The wrong man could be executed! The killer could be still out there! |
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Post by lawrence on Jan 26, 2009 21:01:56 GMT
If there is any real possibility he is innocent then OK , postpone the execution until the doubt is cleared up. There has never been a single execution in the US that was later proven to be a mistake. We don't need to have one now so it is necessary to err on the side of caution.
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Post by lawrence on Jan 30, 2009 19:13:17 GMT
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Post by norfolkdumpling on Jan 31, 2009 7:28:22 GMT
Forensic science is advancing all the time, maybe when the murder happened it wasn't possible to be so exact about time of death. I do think there needs to be further investigation before the man is "fried"
There have been cases of the wrong person being prosecuted for murder since the advances in DNA testing. Not many but enough to convince me the death penalty is wrong. I also think a long jail sentence is a better punishment as it gives the culprit time to reflect on what he did during the long hours in his cell.
Death is the easy way out.
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Post by norfolkdumpling on Jan 31, 2009 7:33:09 GMT
Reading the news reports it does seem likely the man is guilty. He should get a life sentence instead. In the meantime further investigations can be made surely there was a lot of other evidence to show who murdered the girl? DNA for instance.
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Post by Libby on Jan 31, 2009 22:27:08 GMT
There does now seem to be a discrepancy over the time frame from when the girl died and from when the accused was in prison. The implications now point to him being free at the time the girl was murdered. I still think it's unfair to execute someone without firm DNA evidence. He should remain on life sentence until this is proven one way or the other.
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