Friday, January 22, 2010

Where can i find cases where it sent a innocent person to get the death penalty?

The best place is at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org





On the left side, click on innocence. You'll see a list of cases of wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. As of now, there are 139 known cases where the defendant was, fortunately, exonerated. You'll also see the more tragic list, of people who were executed anyway.





The latest: In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Texas for starting the fire that killed his children. Modern forensics has shown that the fire was accidental. There wasn鈥檛 even a crime. For more on this case see


http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/鈥?/a>


and http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/鈥?/a>Where can i find cases where it sent a innocent person to get the death penalty?
Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 鈥?August 17, 1915) was an American man who became the only known Jew to be lynched on American soil.[1][2][3] The manager of his uncle's pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia, Frank was convicted in the rape and murder of one of his factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. The case is widely regarded as having been a miscarriage of justice.[4] It was the focus of many conflicting cultural pressures, and the jury's conclusion represented in part, class and regional resentment of educated Northern industrialists who were perceived to be wielding too much power in the South, threatening southern culture and morality.[5] The trial was sensationalized by the media. The Georgia politician and publisher Tom Watson used the case to build personal political power and support for a revival of the Ku Klux Klan.[6]





Shortly after Frank's conviction, new evidence emerged that cast doubt on his guilt.[7] After the governor commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment, Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a group of prominent citizens who called themselves the ';Knights of Mary Phagan';.[8] The group is reported to have included the son of a senator, a former governor, lawyers, and a prosecutor.[9]Where can i find cases where it sent a innocent person to get the death penalty?
Check these sites:





http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocenc鈥?/a>





http://www.innocenceproject.org/know/Bro鈥?/a>





I hope that helps. Good luck!

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