In the ongoing discussion over capital punishment, currently triggered by what the US administration has described as falling short of humane standards.
However this doesn't address the main reasons for opposition to the death penalty; moral and ethical. Neglecting for the moment whether or not it's morally acceptable for the state to kill people in this way, or whether execution is actually an effective deterrent, this still leaves the question of how often is an innocent person executed in the USA.
New research indicates that a significant proportion of those on death row in the USA are innocent.
However this doesn't address the main reasons for opposition to the death penalty; moral and ethical. Neglecting for the moment whether or not it's morally acceptable for the state to kill people in this way, or whether execution is actually an effective deterrent, this still leaves the question of how often is an innocent person executed in the USA.
New research indicates that a significant proportion of those on death row in the USA are innocent.
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The rate of erroneous conviction of innocent criminal defendants is often described as not merely unknown but unknowable. We use survival analysis to model this effect, and estimate that if all death-sentenced defendants remained under sentence of death indefinitely at least 4.1% would be exonerated. We conclude that this is a conservative estimate of the proportion of false conviction among death sentences in the United States. |
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