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calling it for what it is….

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

John Holdridge is at it again. By “at it” I mean hitting home runs.  This time he takes on NADA’sJosh Marquis and his claims that less than 30 innocent people have been convicted and sentenced to die in the modern era: Support for the death penalty in the U.S. is at its lowest point in many years. One of the primary reasons is the recent explosion in the number of death-row exonerations, which the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) now puts at 127. In response, some proponents of capital punishment have taken to arguing that many of the freed death-row prisoners are not in fact innocent. But their arguments do not hold up under the slightest of scrutiny. For example, a March 25 New York Times story by Adam Liptak quotes Oregon prosecutor Joshua Marquis as saying that the number of “authentic” death row exonerations since 1973 is not DPIC’s 127 but “more like 30...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 07, 2008 (boomark / email).