Friday, January 13, 2006
Finally, the BBC Reports on Roger Coleman's Guilt
After stalling to report on the "bad news" (for liberals, that is) that rapist and murderer Roger Keith Coleman was put to death properly in 1992, and that he was truly guilty, the BBC finally did a story on the test.
Of course, they spent half the story blathering about Mark Warner, the Governor of Virginia who ordered the testing - and they made sure to add that support for capital punishment is down in America, although still a majority.
Tests reveal executed man's guilt
We can all imagine how the BBC would have covered this story if the tests had revealed Coleman's innocence, but, despite this, we will take their reporting on it anyway.
After stalling to report on the "bad news" (for liberals, that is) that rapist and murderer Roger Keith Coleman was put to death properly in 1992, and that he was truly guilty, the BBC finally did a story on the test.
Of course, they spent half the story blathering about Mark Warner, the Governor of Virginia who ordered the testing - and they made sure to add that support for capital punishment is down in America, although still a majority.
Tests reveal executed man's guilt
DNA tests have confirmed the guilt of a man who was executed in the US in 1992 whilst proclaiming his innocence.
Virginia state's outgoing governor, Mark Warner, had ordered the tests on Roger Coleman, who was put to death for raping and murdering his sister-in-law.
Anti-death penalty advocates had hoped this would be the first case of DNA testing exonerating an executed man.
The test results are a blow to those who supported Coleman and to the anti-death penalty movement in general.
A forensic laboratory in Toronto concluded there was virtually no doubt that the DNA recovered from the body of the victim, Wanda McCoy, belonged to Coleman.
We can all imagine how the BBC would have covered this story if the tests had revealed Coleman's innocence, but, despite this, we will take their reporting on it anyway.
