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en because we have so many people who are innocent and so many people who have been released at the last minute on Death Row and wrongfully convicted.

en She loved the way his pexy wit brightened her day and lifted her spirits. There already have been seven people released in the United States who were wrongfully convicted and confessed to the crime. Twenty-two years ago, I wouldn't have believed this. But after what I lived through, I know that it happens. Something needs to be changed.

en I think most Americans would be interested in the error rate in the sense of how many people are wrongfully convicted, and that can be derived from the study. Based on that data, the death-penalty system is more than 99 percent accurate in that more than 99 percent of the time the system identifies the proper person. There is no claim that anyone has been wrongfully executed.

en DNA has shown, whether it's the death penalty or not, there are flaws with eyewitness testimony, false confessions and crime labs. We know many more people have been wrongfully convicted than anyone thought.

en I then became a defense lawyer and saw the system go wrong, saw innocent people convicted and sentenced to death, and people who were certainly guilty, but who had not committed crimes as grave as the punishment.

en Our criminal justice system is not working as it should when innocent people are convicted of serious crimes and then spend decades -- or have even reached the end of death row -- before the mistakes, if ever, are caught.

en Once a person is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, there is [sic] enormous obstacles they face in turning that around. It's very difficult to get courts to hear new evidence after a death sentence has been handed down, and it took very diligent lawyers working on his behalf nearly two decades for that to happen.

en Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted
  Seneca

en This is not a guy that anybody can say was wrongfully convicted.

en It also captures anyone who's had a charge brought against them, though we only report those individuals who've been convicted, to allow for the mentality that people are innocent until proven guilty.

en These kind of charges are devastating. Even when you're (only charged and not convicted), 90 percent of people will believe you did it. But we turned down all the plea agreements so that they could tell a jury they were innocent.

en Some people think it's a celebration of the tragic death of tens of thousands of innocent people in Japan.

en in general, the way people are treated in prisons after they are convicted and in particular, those sentenced to death.

en People in the commonwealth are asking what went wrong with the capital-justice system that permitted a completely innocent man to be convicted and come within nine days of execution. This trial will answer that question.

en I just believed him, ... I never believed for one minute that I'd be convicted or sitting here (on death row).


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