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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2669551" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>US death row study: 4% of defendants sentenced to die are innocent</p><p></p><p>Deliberately conservative figure lays bare extent of possible miscarriages of justice suggesting that the innocence of more than 200 prisoners still in the system may never be recognised</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i.guim.co.uk_static_w_460_h___q_95_sys_images_Guardian_Pix_pic4decdab2addcc08b28a373c3c378a05c.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Death penalty</p><p>The single largest group of innocent death row inmates are neither exonerated and released nor executed, the study suggests. Rather, they are left in limbo. </p><p></p><p>Monday 28 April 2014 </p><p></p><p>At least 4.1% of all defendants sentenced to death in the US in the modern era are innocent, according to the first major study to attempt to calculate how often states get it wrong in their wielding of the ultimate punishment.</p><p></p><p>A team of legal experts and statisticians from Michigan and Pennsylvania used the latest statistical techniques to produce a peer-reviewed estimate of the “dark figure” that lies behind the death penalty &#8211; how many of the more than 8,000 men and women who have been put on death row since the 1970s were falsely convicted.</p><p></p><p>The team arrived at a deliberately conservative figure that lays bare the extent of possible miscarriages of justice, suggesting that the innocence of more than 200 prisoners still in the system may never be recognised.</p><p></p><p>The study concludes that were all innocent people who were given death sentences to be cleared of their offences, the exoneration rate would rise from the actual rate of those released &#8211; 1.6% &#8211; to at least 4.1%. That is equivalent in the time frame of the study, 1973 to 2004, of about 340 prisoners &#8211; a much larger group than the 138 who were exonerated in the same period.</p><p></p><p>“This is a disturbing finding,” said Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan law school who is the lead author of the research. “There are a large number of people who are sentenced to death, and despite our best efforts some of them have undoubtedly been executed.”</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-study-4-percent-defendants-innocent" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-study-4-percent-defendants-innocent</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2669551, member: 7629"] US death row study: 4% of defendants sentenced to die are innocent Deliberately conservative figure lays bare extent of possible miscarriages of justice suggesting that the innocence of more than 200 prisoners still in the system may never be recognised [IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i.guim.co.uk_static_w_460_h___q_95_sys_images_Guardian_Pix_pic4decdab2addcc08b28a373c3c378a05c.jpeg[/IMG] Death penalty The single largest group of innocent death row inmates are neither exonerated and released nor executed, the study suggests. Rather, they are left in limbo. Monday 28 April 2014 At least 4.1% of all defendants sentenced to death in the US in the modern era are innocent, according to the first major study to attempt to calculate how often states get it wrong in their wielding of the ultimate punishment. A team of legal experts and statisticians from Michigan and Pennsylvania used the latest statistical techniques to produce a peer-reviewed estimate of the “dark figure” that lies behind the death penalty – how many of the more than 8,000 men and women who have been put on death row since the 1970s were falsely convicted. The team arrived at a deliberately conservative figure that lays bare the extent of possible miscarriages of justice, suggesting that the innocence of more than 200 prisoners still in the system may never be recognised. The study concludes that were all innocent people who were given death sentences to be cleared of their offences, the exoneration rate would rise from the actual rate of those released – 1.6% – to at least 4.1%. That is equivalent in the time frame of the study, 1973 to 2004, of about 340 prisoners – a much larger group than the 138 who were exonerated in the same period. “This is a disturbing finding,” said Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan law school who is the lead author of the research. “There are a large number of people who are sentenced to death, and despite our best efforts some of them have undoubtedly been executed.” [url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-study-4-percent-defendants-innocent[/url] [/QUOTE]
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