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East of Broken Bow | Where did this happen? You mention 'hundreds of people on death row', but it doesn't pan out.
Perhaps you meant 'hundreds in prison for murder', instead of 'on death row'?
According to the ACLU, there were a total of 273 people in prison for murder that were cleared, but only 17 people on Death Row had their sentence overturned because of DNA evidence, and zero known to have been executed.
https://www.aclu.org/other/dna-testing-and-death-penalty
17 death row inmates, have been exonerated by use of DNA tests. (quoted directly from above article)
Also, according to the innocence project, of murder convictions overturned by DNA evidence, over 60% were convicted because of a confession by the suspect. The (false) confession was often because of a mental condition.
However, what is REALLY scary (and makes me lose a bit of trust in the Justice System is this quote from an article I found:
23 (22%) of the 104 people whose cases involved false confessions had exculpatory DNA evidence available at the time of trial but were still wrongfully convicted [as of July 29, 2020]
(oh, link to above info:)
https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-states/ | |
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Do you trust the justice system?
