Convicting people and setencing them to life imprisonment or sending them to death row on mere circumstantial evidence is simply act of malice. While some of these people are lucky in eventually finding justice and eventually receiving some compensation at taxpayers expense, depriving people of their right to freedom and subjecting them to unnecessary mental anguish is diabolic.
Michael Morton, who just got released from Texas prison after years behind bars for crime he did not commit, is about fourth person exonerated thus far in 2011 from Texas prison. Though tough on crime, I would, anytime, rather see even a guilty person walk free than have an innocent person behind bars for more than 48 hours!
I wonder what would have happened had DNA not been available to these Texas individuals. What if Troy Davis never committed the murder he just got executed for?
Michael Morton Exonerated - Texan freed after DNA clears him in wife's slaying - CBS News
Wrongful Convictions and Cost to Taxpayers - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/u...t-compensated-differently.html?_r=1&ref=texas
Michael Morton, who just got released from Texas prison after years behind bars for crime he did not commit, is about fourth person exonerated thus far in 2011 from Texas prison. Though tough on crime, I would, anytime, rather see even a guilty person walk free than have an innocent person behind bars for more than 48 hours!
I wonder what would have happened had DNA not been available to these Texas individuals. What if Troy Davis never committed the murder he just got executed for?
Michael Morton Exonerated - Texan freed after DNA clears him in wife's slaying - CBS News
Wrongful Convictions and Cost to Taxpayers - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/u...t-compensated-differently.html?_r=1&ref=texas