Essay: The problem of innocence in death penalty cases

Note: Professor Brandon Garrett of the University of Virginia Law School is the author of the following book "The end of the rope: the way to kill the death penalty can revive the criminal justice". This is his view on development last week.

Two long reports, "No Innocence and Death Penalty: Risk of Innocence" (1997) and "Innocence and Death Penalty: Risk Assessment of Miscalculation" (1993). A list of 127 defendants released from condemned prisoners; despite being guilty of guilt, the eight lists have still been executed. The innocent list of the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) ("innocence: elimination of death penalty") is supposed to support the release of 102 innocent prisoners nationwide. The list was promiscuously accepted as final. However, reviewing list facilities and information sources poses serious doubts as to whether many of the innocent prisoners on the list are indeed innocent. Author: Ward A. Campbell. Director of California Attorney General

Dieter, Richard C., Innocence and the Death Penalance: In July 1997 the risk of introducing an innocent capital punishment information center is rising. Of the 69 prisoners sentenced to death and subsequently innocuous in this report, the average time spent on death row was about seven years. Recently, measures were taken to shorten the procedure of appeal, and the authors predict that more innocent prisoners will be executed. Eric, Bailey, "Execution of a prisoner is imminent, there is a death sentence suspected of guilt, his lawyer cited new evidence and is endorsed, on July 28, 1997, p. A3. His death sentence seems to be consistent with the crime - a woman who raped Newport Beach and murdered in cruelty is not 21 years old yet, as Thomas Thompson approaches his fate, he is uneasy Uncertainty still exists Unlike the four men who went to California's death room, Thompson claimed that he was innocent.