According to the Death Penalty Information Center there were 123 inmates in all fifty states found innocent between 1973 and November 21, 2006. To be included on the DPIC’s Innocence List the defendants must have been convicted, sentenced to death and subsequently either (1) their conviction was overturned and they were acquitted at re-trial or all charges were dropped or (2) they were given an absolute pardon by the governor based on new evidence of innocence.

On January 10, 2003 Governor Ryan of Illinois granted clemency to all 167 death row prisoners in Illinois.

Half of 167 is 83 which means that over two/thirds of the total on the DPCI list would have to be on Illinois death row.

As you scan the list of the Death Penalty Information Center (which spans a period of 33 years) you find but a few from Illinois.

I have looked into this as much I think is useful. If you can point me to a better set of statistics, I will be happy for the tip.

No.

If during a sample period, 1/2 of the people on death row in Illinois were found to be not guilty of the crimes for which they are charged, then why is saying that 50% of the inmates on death row in Illinois were found to be not guilty of the crimes for which they are charged?

Not one person EVER made the claim the 50% figure was inaccurate.

Not only that, but the innocences of the crimes for which they were convicted were done so by VOLUNTEERS, not done by lawyers for those later released.

Nifong Requests Extension for State Bar Complaint Response

The reason given?

“You only have 20 days, and that’s not enough time to take in this case,” Freedman said. “There’s volumes and volumes we need to review. We need to discuss the case with him, and we need to get a better feel before we respond to the case.”

The real reason? Nifong to Freedman: We need to get a better feel of what whoppers we can come up with to get my ass out of hot water.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1176393/

just thanks….

http://friendsofdukeuniversity.blogspot.com/2006/05/letters-from-friends-2.html#c116951294294999551

As team captain, Matt was living in the house at 610 N. Buchanan. . . With no safe haven to go, at one point, he was living out of his car. His parents visited each weekend, just to see him and make sure he was safe. “My husband and I went down to visit him. This kid had tried to walk the straight and narrow everyday and set an example and he was searching for a shirt in the trunk of his car. We watched him change his clothes in the parking lot. I thought I would die of a broken heart that day”, said Mrs. Zash.

Mrs. McFayden described “the feeling of helplessness of watching Ryan weep uncontrollably on his father’s shoulder as he heard that his friends and teammates, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, had been indicted and being unable to console him.”

P.S. If you rearrange the letters in “reasonable” and substitute and add a few, you get the phrase: “Don’t confuse me with the facts.”

I’m divided on this particular subject. The bravery of being out of range leads many on the Internet to become incredibly rude and abusive, far beyond the call of duty or reason. I know how cruel, sarcastic, biting, and just plain mean people can be i…

You MIGHT be able to get justice in NC, provided you can afford it. Otherwise, you’re outta luck :

http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson167.html

(excerpts) :

(Two other people, after serving many years in prison because they could not pay the $1 million bond, pleaded nolo contendere while maintaining their innocence simply because they lost all confidence in the State of North Carolina to do what was right. To put it another way, they agreed to submit to more prison time – another year – because they knew that the deck was stacked against them. I suppose that is what people mean when they declare “the system works.” Yes, it “works” in the promotion of state power, period.)

The question one asks is this: Why does the State of North Carolina continue to impose huge costs on everyone when we know this case is a fraud? The simplest answer is this: They do it because they can do it.

SteveDinMD: Did we not debunk this claim earlier in the thread? If we are to claim “mounting” prosecutorial misconduct, we need to produce data substantiating the claim.

“(The libs say get out of Iraq……it’s just a civil war. Well, when the Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s hack each other up, it is just a civil war…. or not.)”

The above is just classic “you” and I would LOVE to hear a response as to why it is criminal that we don’t intervene in one civil war while it is criminal that we do try to intervene/prevent (in) another.

One in a series of mounting cases of prosecutorial misconduct. In Illinois, 50% of inmates on death row were found to be innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted.

Why?

Was it poor representation or prosecutorial misconduct or a combination?

For example, many civil libertarians have been complaining, for years, about the use of “jail house snitches.”

As you point out, the players are still on the scence. Good! So let those who care about Tulia do something about it. And I wish them well.

And people are trying. So why no uproar?

shall from now on invoke Rawanda and how the MSM & conservatives marched in lockstep to ignore the genocide in ‘94 and how the key players are still running around unpunished.

Thats a good deal for me.