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Rodricks on Exonerations

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The Baltimore Sun columnist and blogger Dan Rodricks latest is, "Death penalty 'exonerations'."  Here's an extended excerpt, but doubters should read the entire post.Recently, I made another reference to the number of Death Row inmates across the country who have been spared execution because of exonerations of one form or another. The Death Penalty Information Center keeps this count -- it is presently 133 -- and it has been verified elsewhere in the mainstream press. When I first started using the numbers from DPIC, I conducted Sun archive and Internet searches to independently check the exonerations, and found a large sampling of them to be accurate. But, at the same time, I think "exonerations" should only be used when a person is convicted but later found to be innocent of the murder that resulted in a sentence of death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).