For Every Seven Executed, One Is Eventually Exonerated
Today's editorial in the L.A. Times In Defense of the Innocent points out that "for every seven people executed since 1977, one person on death row is eventually exonerated by new evidence."
In calling for passage of the bipartisan Innocence Protection Act now pending before Congress, the Times notes:
"Some 3,700 men and women around the nation now have a date with the executioner. The prospect that innocent people could be among them should frighten every American."
Here's more on the Innocence Protection Act.
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