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Frontline (frontline@pbs.org) - Case for the Innocent
A former prosecutor talks about the forces that make it difficult to acknowledge and remedy mistakes in the criminal justice system.
A constitutional law professor at Columbia University discusses the procedural obstacles to fairness which occur in more cases than the criminal justice system can bear to acknowledge.
This Staff Report issued by the Senate subcommittee in October of 1993 concluded: "Judging by past experience, a substantial number of death row inmates are indeed innocent and there is a high risk that some of them will be executed."
The report discusses the growing national "emphasis on faster executions, less resources for the defense, and an expansion in the number of death cases."
In this 1998 law review article, professor Gross rigorously pursues the question at the center of the capital punishment debate that others put off: "Why are innocent people regularly sentenced to death?"
In this law review article, Bedau and Radelet draw on their past research and case inventories to inform a discussion concept of "innocence," the sorts of evidence on which innocence claims are often based, and how all of this plays into official and public understanding and debate about the death penalty.
Public support for the death penalty seems based on an underlying assumption that only the guilty are executed
In this extensive report for the Atlantic Monthly, journalist Alan Berlow considers the "horrifyingly likely" prospect that innocent people will be executed in America.
Some are filing claims for their lost years in prison--what are their lives worth? Not very much
"It seems strange that so little attention has been given to one of the most flagrant of all publicly imposed wrongs -- the plight of the innocent victim of unjust conviction in criminal cases." These words, written in 1932 ...
