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Could an innocent person have been executed? There is no way to tell how many of the over 1,000 people executed since 1976 may have been innocent. ... Defense attorneys move on to other cases where clients' lives can still be saved. (see possible cases of executed who might be innocent) ; Recently, the case of Cameron...
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www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-and-death-penalty
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-and-death-penalty
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The prospect that innocent people will be executed in America is horrifyingly likely, the author argues in this unsparing report on the criminal-justice ... Nevertheless, a handful of cases over the past decade have raised troubling questions as to whether the person executed was guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt."
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www.theatlantic.com/issues/99nov/9911wrongman.htm
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They are the former Illinois Death Row inmates who have been found innocent and freed in the decade since the death penalty was reinstituted in the state. In the same period of time, the state executed only eight men. All together, those fr...
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/deathpen.html
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People used to believe that capital cases were no different than any others, ... "If you have a money judgment, you can appeal and it's reversed and everyone gets their money and it's fine," Hartman says. "But when somebody's executed, you can't bring them back. What if nine innocent people had been executed?
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www.abanet.org/irr/hr/fall97/deathpen.html
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed for setting a fire that killed his three children in Corsicana, Texas, in 1991. Writer describes the Willingham home being consumed by fire on December 23, 1991. Neighbors arrived to find Cameron Todd Willingham on the ... More men showed up,
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www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_gr...
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann
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Here, however, we will explore some of what we believe to be at least a few dozen instances when prisoners who most likely were innocent nevertheless were executed. ... Among cases mentioned in previous issues of J:D is David Wayne Spence, executed by the state of Texas on April 3, 1997 despite the conclusion of the...
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www.justicedenied.org/executed.htm
www.justicedenied.org/executed.htm
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Innocent people are convicted and executed...
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www.afn.org/~afn32390/deathimages/innocent.htm
www.afn.org/~afn32390/deathimages/innocent.htm
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There is no proof that since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 that an innocent person, convicted and sentenced under these statutes, has been executed. Not even the DPIC makes this claim. ... C. Cases on DPIC List: Actually Innocent or Falsely Exonerated?
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www.prodeathpenalty.com/DPIC.htm
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