Subject: Re: Federal death penalty

manifest
1. Apparent; clear; obvious; unquestionable; evident.
For example, something that is manifestly erroneous is clearly wrong. (Anything Dope says qualifies.) :)

According to the Supreme Court of Louisiana in Canter v. Koehring Co. (1973), the “manifest error rule” requires appellate courts to give great deference to lower trial courts’ factual inferences when reviewing cases, so long as the trial court’s account of the facts is reasonable and exhibits no manifest error.
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Interesting. I'm not worried about the truly guilty repenting or being redeemed. But if that's what it takes to stop it, so be it.