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Answering the hard questions: Innocence

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

"If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed." -Justice Sandra Day O?ConnorConsider the following:Because human beings administer the death penalty system and because human beings are fallible, innocent people may have been executed in the past and will continue to be executed in the future.Since 1973, more than 130 people in 26 states have been released from death rows across the U.S. after evidence of their wrongful convictions emerged. This represents approximately 1 exoneration for every 9 executions. In April 2002, Ray Krone became the 100th person to be released from death row since 1973. Krone spent 10 years in prison in Arizona, including time on death row for a murder he did not commit...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).