When we Americans have conflicts with other people or someone breaks the law, who do we turn to??? To the courts, of course. That means that we trust the courts to handle our problems because they are supposed to be "perfect." The truth is that they are NOT! They are not even always reliable. But we cannot blame the court, the ones incharge and responsible are the Judges. A corrupt case in the hand is the recent overturn of an appeal by a death row inmate. On September 25, 2007 Justice Sharon Keller decided to overturn an appeal by a Texas' death row inmate. Days later, two other executions were put on hold because of an appeal similar to the one Keller overturned. Why did she do this? She says that she did not know about any technical difficulties that the inmate's lawyers were having and that she did not think it was anything serious. It turns out to be that Keller was informed of the technical problems and that she made the decision without commenting any of the other justices on the case. We Americans rely on Judges to serve justice for us all day, every day, not only from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. like Keller decided to on September 25. The worst part of all this is that WE the people choose who the judges will be. What we need to do in order to prevent incidences and people like Keller is to actually go out there and vote for those who we think will righteously serve us and make the right choices.
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I totally agree with you on this matter. The court system is pretty much what it comes down for criminal and civil matters. The decisions that they make at the end of the case decides our faith and our future. In many cases, death row is the ultimate and final punishment. Life and death is a very serious matter because once you’re hung, then its over. Nothing that we can do to overturn it. So when ever this decision should be made, there should be good reasoning behind it along with substantial evidence. If an appeal is overturned, then an innocent man could be executed. A judge must be aware of any technical difficulties or situation which is going on with matters of life and death. Yet Justice Sharon Keller knew about the difficulties which were going on, but she denied knowing this. If our judges can lie to us, then who else can we turn to for justice? Next time, there should be more extensive before we allow anyone to run for positions. I also agree on the part on how we need to all get involved as a community and not just a couple of individuals who run the city. If not then we might as well have a dictatorship!
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