It is from a book on the research about it from Northwestern Univ,. [6].
Didn't bother to check the reference. Think wiki is not referenced.
Listen carefully, Carelessness cannot be helped unless you want help.
[6] "Executing the Innocent", Northwestern Univ. School of Law Center on Wrongful Convictions.
University of Michigan law
professor,
Samuel Gross lead a team of experts in the law and in
statistics that estimated the likely number unjust convictions. The study determined that at least 4% of people on death row were and are innocent. The research was
peer reviewed and the prestigious
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published it, Gross has no doubt some innocent people have been executed.
[12]
[12]
US death row study: 4% of defendants sentenced to die are innocent.
published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cameron Todd Willingham was executed February, 2004, for murdering his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas. Nationally known fire investigator Gerald Hurst reviewed the case documents, including the trial transcriptions and an hour-long videotape of the aftermath of the fire scene and said in December 2004 that "There's nothing to suggest to any reasonable arson investigator that this was an arson fire. It was just a fire."
[13]
Johnny Garrett of Texas was executed February, 1992, for allegedly raping and murdering a nun. In March, 2004, cold-case DNA testing identified Leoncio Rueda as the rapist and murderer of another elderly victim killed four months prior.
[16] Immediately following the nun's murder, prosecutors and police were certain the two cases were committed by the same assailant.
[17] In both cases, black curly head hairs were found on the victims, linked to Rueda. Previously unidentified fingerprints in the nun's room were matched to Rueda. The flawed case is explored in a 2008 documentary entitled
The Last Word.
Jesse Tafero was convicted of murder and executed via electric chair May, 1990, in the state of Florida for the murders of two Florida Highway Patrol officers. The conviction of a co-defendant was overturned in 1992 after a recreation of the crime scene indicated a third person had committed the murders.
[18]
Carlos DeLuna was executed in Texas in December 1989. Subsequent investigations cast strong doubt upon DeLuna's guilt for the murder of which he had been convicted.
[19][20]
Thomas and Meeks Griffin were executed in 1915 for the murder of a man involved in an interracial affair two years previously but were pardoned 94 years after execution. It is thought that they were arrested and charged because they were viewed as wealthy enough to hire competent legal counsel and get an acquittal.
[21]
Chipita Rodriguez was hanged in
San Patricio County, Texas in 1863 for murdering a horse trader, and 122 years later, the
Texas Legislature passed a
resolution exonerating her.
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Wallow and hide in your comfortable self lies, We all do it. The Death Penalty is retribution plain and simple. They are punished by death row, and not punished, but released by death and suffer no more.
And Texas? In Texas, in this day and age with 2 States legal, a pound of brownies with a gram of hash oil, is counted as a pound of pot. You do life in Texas for that. Shameful of my birth State.
