Re: [OT] Free Software Strikes Again?



Timofei Shatrov wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:41:08 -0300, Leandro Rios <leandroprogramador@xxxxxxxxx>
tried to confuse everyone with this message:


I am puzzled: Being the life of a man at stake, the court didn't want to wait another twenty minutes?

Probably one factor was that they had already waited twenty years and the only thing at dispute was the /method/ of execution, not the guilt or sentence. So...
Being the life of a man at stake, the lawyers couldn't get another computer to write the appeal on? A classic typewriter? By hand?



Maybe he was a really bad guy and no one really cared enough?


In Texas there is certainly that, but I wager it was more that he had strung things out for twenty years by leveraging the system's rules and as one wag noted turnabout is fair play.

kenny

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