TIL: 80% of people put on Louisiana’s death row were later exonerated.
“The law is a ass - a idiot”.
“The law is a ass - a idiot”.
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I learned that from various Discovery channel documentaries
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-louisiana-death-penalty-staggeringly-error-prone-racially-biased
Even if only 9 out of the 241 people were exonerated, that’s still an incredibly high number when you consider the stakes involved. 9 innocent people in prison for years who could have been executed! It highlights the deep flaws in the criminal system.
He's still serving life in prison.
She stopped it because she admitted there was no evidence he committed the crime.
This is extremely rare in Bama because they love killing people so that means this guy must really of been railroaded.
I wish more people cared.
https://eji.org/news/alabama-governor-commutes-rocky-myerss-death-sentence/
Turns out the rate of recidivism for murder is astonishingly low.