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Originally Posted by natehale1971
You go through a series of appeals that the taxpayers pay for. that investigates all aspects of the crime and how they were found guilty. To date it looks as if NONE have been executed falsely. the average time spent on death row are 20 years or more. during that time they are going through their appeals.
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Really? I'd like to see the sources substantiating this claim. I'm pretty sure that I've heard of more than a couple of cases where people were executed only for evidence (usually DNA that could not be processed due to non-existent technology) to surface exonerating them. If this is not the case, I'd love to be proven wrong. The execution of innocents is one of my biggest objections to capital punishment- that, and the lack of evidence backing it as a deterent to crime.