0,000 people face major budgetary problems. All of them have been forced to cut resources required for equal justice to prevail. Even Supreme Court justices say "There probably has never been a wider gulf between the need for legal services and the provision of those services. There is a great deal to be concerned about, or even ashamed of," stated Justice O'Connor. Others with in adequate counsels have already been exucuted or remain on death row. Far too often, people mostly poor, are given the death penalty not because they commited the worst crimes, but because they had the worst lawyers. In addition, I will now tell you a story that truely shows how poorly the defense lawyers are. Lloyd Schlup was accused of murder. His attorney did nothing to prepare for trial, his attorney assumed that the case would be thrown out beforehand. But when the case was announced for trial it was too late for him to prepare. Llyod's defense attorney was appointed to him by the judge. His attorney put on no defense. Despite the enormous amount of evidence that would prove him innocent, this included a video tape and eyewitnesses proving that he was nowhere near the scene of crime. His attorney never enterviewed any of the twenty eyewitnesses who saw the murder. Llyod Schlup came within an hour of his exucution. But the attorney he hired got the charges dropped and he was set free. Schlup's first attorney visited him twice for a total of seventy-five minutes before the trial. Unlike the daily visits by Robert Shapiro to O.J. Simpson. In conclusion, "Those that got the capital don't get the punishment." Abu-Jammal. To begin, many innocent people have been accused and died, but a few luckly ones have been saved. In 1995 George Bush signed into a new law called the "Speedy Death Bill", which means once you have been convicted of a murder and have got the death penalty even if you are innocent, your days are numbered you have eight years u...
