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No one knows for certain how many innocent people were executed because historically, once the execution takes place, the investigation re: innocence stops. There are 8 cases since 1976 when executions restarted, with significant indication...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080611093...
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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. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence once the defendant is dead.
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www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-and-death-penalty
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-and-death-penalty
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A frequent rebuttal to this argument is that no innocent person has actually been executed. In this article we examine the weakness ... Pedro Medina came to the United States in the Mariel boatlift of 1980, when the Castro administration sent to the US thousands of Cubans, including many criminals and mentally ill people,
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www.justicedenied.org/executed.htm
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Two American researchers, Hugo Bedau and Michael Radelet, have found 23 known instances of innocent people being executed in the U.S. in this century. It is important to note that these are cases where innocence was provable after execution...
http://www.ejusa.org/moratorium_now/org_packet_q_and_a....
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Their names spark vague recognition in many Illinois residents: Rolando Cruz, ... "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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Is it thinkable that a few innocent people have been executed? Quite possibly. Is that acceptable in the big picture? -- Barry (bchbear863@cs.com), February 13, 2001. ... How many innocent people live, or die, by these state actions should be carefully considered. Although I do advocate the death penalty, I feel that...
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The other unanswered question is, of course, how many, if any, innocent people have actually been put to death. ... Proving that an innocent person has been executed is difficult. Once a convicted murderer is dead, few people have any incentive to pursue claims of innocence. Witnesses and evidence disappear, memories fade,
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If they were proven innocent, they would not be in jail. Now if you reword your question to something like; does anybody know how many people have been executed for crimes that were later found innocent. Then I would suggest you go to the aclu web site and do some research.
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"There is a very strong case to be made for a review of our death penalty statutes and even look at the possibility of having life without parole so we don’t look up one day and determine that we as the State of Texas have executed someone who is in fact innocent," he said. ... As many states face further deficits,
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