http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:00:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/24/the-tragedy-of-kris-and-marita-maharaj/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/24/the-tragedy-of-kris-and-marita-maharaj/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:00:08 +0000 Clive Stafford Smith http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26691 There are few experiences as discordant as representing an innocent person who has been sentenced to death. After all, if the prisoner is innocent, he is one hundred percent sure that he did not commit the crime; yet twelve jurors have concluded, beyond a reasonable doubt, not only that he did, but that he should be executed for it.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/24/the-tragedy-of-kris-and-marita-maharaj/feed/ 31