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Originally Posted by Tom
1. How many total - what % is 144?
2. What reasons for exoneration - pareto chart?
I suggested state-paid-for DNA testing in all cases where applicable. How many of the 144 wold not have been executed if that had been done?
Deep dive of date is needed here, not executive summaries.
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Did you ask about peer-reviewed?
US death row study: 4% of defendants sentenced to die are innocent
Deliberately conservative figure lays bare extent of possible miscarriages of justice suggesting that the innocence of more than 200 prisoners still in the system may never be recognised
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...dants-innocent
At least 4.1% of all defendants sentenced to death in the US in the modern era are innocent, according to the first major study to attempt to calculate how often states get it wrong in their wielding of the ultimate punishment.
A team of legal experts and statisticians from Michigan and Pennsylvania used the latest statistical techniques to produce a
peer-reviewed estimate of the “dark figure” that lies behind the death penalty – how many of the more than 8,000 men and women who have been put on death row since the 1970s were falsely convicted.
