Thread: For Capital Punishment or Against it?
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Old 09-05-2007, 12:18 PM   #241 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by knot_e_lady View Post
Technically, they can't change is commutation.

He can't be tried again because of double jeopardy.

The USSC did commute all death sentences to life in prison around 1970. That decision has since been changed, and, obviously, capital punishment has gone on since Gary Gilmore in 1977.
Yep, I forgot about the double jeopardy. We should not ever have to worry about Manson seeing the sunrise outside of whatever prison he rots in, though.
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