Are There Innocents on Death Row?
A recent statistical study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences finds that at least 4.1 percent of death row inmates are likely innocent.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was conducted by Samuel Gross of the University of Michigan Law School and three other researchers. The researchers concluded that of the prisoners sentenced to death in the U.S. from 1973 to 2004, 1.6 percent was found innocent and exonerated.
The study argues that this number does not reflect the true amount of innocent people sentenced to death in the U.S., because many death-sentenced defendants are removed from death row and instead given a life imprisonment sentence, and therefore their case loses the attention and resources for exoneration that it would have had, had the inmate remained on death row.
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