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Though not death penalty cases, these examples – including an exoneration just last week – reveal how shaky investigative techniques and reliance on eyewitnesses can derail the lives of the innocent. ... It is time to abolish the death penalty. - - -; We have learned much, particularly with advances in DNA technology,
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www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=1947
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=1947
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Seventy-five of the 119 death row inmates that have been exonerated - or 63% - are minorities. ... In the most comprehensive state death penalty study in the nation, the Illinois Commission on ... 4 Exoneration (capital and non-capital) list maintained by Northwestern Law School's Center for Wrongful Convictions...
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www.njadp.org/gdabout&what=innocence
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Mark Warner ordered that the DNA evidence in the case be retested using more advanced methods. Death penalty opponents hoped that, ... There is something unsettling about the very idea that posthumous exoneration is a burden that death-penalty opposition must assume. We don't need posthumous exonerations to tell us...
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www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/09/11/death_pen...
www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/09/11/death_penalty/print.html
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Advances in DNA research, however, which have led to the exoneration of death row inmates, are causing people ... Is the death penalty an appropriate punishment for certain crimes? Arbitrariness; Is capital punishment applied arbitrarily? Racial Bias; Are minorities and poor people more likely to receive the death penalty?
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www.insideout.org/documentaries/dna/teachersguide.asp
www.insideout.org/documentaries/dna/teachersguide.asp
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Krone was the 100th known person to be exonerated and released from a death row in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1972. The exoneration underscores the problems in our nation's death penalty system, ... Krone maintained his innocence throughout and was finally exonerated as a result of DNA testing.
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www.aclu-sc.org/releases/view/100009
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In 1970, when Steven Crawford was 14, he allegedly bludgeoned a childhood friend to death with a hammer. ... They shared their despair over games of chess and dominoes, worked on longshot appeals together in the law library, and dreamed of the day they would win exoneration from a justice system that failed them.
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wrongfulconvictions.blogspot.com/
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The most famous statistical study conducted regarding racial bias in death penalty assessment was the 1970s Baldus study. ... Some claim death row is full of innocent men and recent releases due to new DNA evidence is proof of this assertion. According to ABC News (2000), “618 prisoners have been executed across the...
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penal-system.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_death_penalty...
penal-system.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_death_penalty_as_just_punishment
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The DNA exoneration cases also illustrate the intersection of race and class. In case after case, defendants could not afford top-quality lawyers to challenge prosecutors who often over-stepped the line to secure a ... If the statistics showed significant racial disparities in how the death penalty has been applied,
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www.innocenceproject.org/Content/2078.php
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Kirk Bloodsworth was not the first nor the last capital defendant to receive faulty legal representation, a death sentence, and eventual exoneration through postconviction evidence. ... In addition, technological innovations, such as DNA testing, have greatly improved ... The Death Penalty Is Unfair to Minorities and the Poor...
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www.enotes.com/death-penalty-fair-article
www.enotes.com/death-penalty-fair-article
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