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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Apr 2008 08:21 UTC, submitted by Jason Slack

In October 2006, Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS filesystem, was arrested under the suspicion of the murder of his wife, Nina, who had disappeared off the face of the earth after dropping their two children off at Hans' home. The two were divorced, and fighting a legal battle over ownership of the Namesys company and the custody of their children. Even though the body was never found, he has been declared guilty of first degree murder.

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RE[5]: Like in Denmark..

by A.H. on Tue 29th Apr 2008 16:18 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Like in Denmark.."

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There have been many people on Death Row that were eventually cleared by DNA testing, so apparently current death penalty cases don't live up to your standards.

Are you referring to convictions done 20 years ago cleared by modern techniques? If so then yes, those convictions are not up to my standards.

And there's been a lot of complaining that even the current process takes way too long and costs too much money.

Not quite sure where you are going with this. Are you recommending not going through the "process" today but keeping criminals in jail until it becomes faster and cheaper? What if when such time comes we'll find out that half of those people were in fact innocent?

....Good luck convincing anyone on either side that they're wrong.

And yet, here you are...

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