As the media reaches into many homes and workplaces the public has a clear view of any trial involving the death penalty. ... In total, going through the appeals, the trials and finally the execution itself, it can cost up to 18 million for a state to finalize a death of a convicted killer (Bronner). ... In the summer of 1996 Damon Thibodeaux cracked at the end of a nine-hour interrogation and confessed to the brutal rape and murder of his 14-year-old step-cousin, Crystal Champagne. ... There is no telling the reasoning behind a crime and when we began to implement the same justice that destro...

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At this point he has been taken in to be interrogated by Officer Della Pesca, who is a white officer who turns out to be racist. ... In the first trial Rubin was presented before an all-white jury that had no evidence but convicted them two of murder. ... By failing to Mirandize the suspects the prosecutor can't use anything the suspect says as evidence against the suspect at trial. ... This was the same witness the state let wrongly testify at the first trial. ...

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