How many people have been sentenced to death then later proven innocent?

neelie_447

This number applies to the U.S.: "The official list, maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center, is 128 people released from death row after evidence of their innocence emerged.... If anything, this list is too small. For example, it does not include people like Kenny Richey, a Scotsman recently freed from Ohio's death row. Richey is not on the list because he accepted what's known as an "Alford plea" in order to avoid the indignity and risk of another wrongful conviction. And the list, of course, does not include the many innocent people currently on death row -- a figure that could be as high as five percent of the almost 3,300 people on death rows across the United States." http://www.deathpenaltyusa.blogspot.com/ Apr 22 08, 7:19 PM

star_gazer

Nor does it include the innocent people who were tragically executed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ethics/capitalpunishment/against_3.shtml Apr 22 08, 9:57 PM