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Fighting Wrongful Convictions
Law professor & attorney Barry Scheck recounts the story behind the founding of The Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization that is committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing, and to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
Have you heard of this project and its long list of innocent victims it has freed from death row, life imprisonment, and extreme personal culpability resulting in long sentences, unwarranted lifetime punishment in the case of false testimonies being the sole reason for incarceration in "molestation" cases, not to mention constant harassment people on sex offender lists have for life, including threats to their families.
Yep. It's an excellent organization.
Also, one of my old text books was written by Scott Turow. It's called Ultimate Punishment. He was on the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment.
http://illinoismurderindictments.la...ois_Moratorium_Commission_complete-report.pdf
The book is a short read. The fall out from some of the cases was still in the media some five years ago.