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cods wrote on Jan 10 th, 2019 at 10:10am: Bobby. wrote on Jan 10 th, 2019 at 9:15am: cods wrote on Jan 10 th, 2019 at 8:53am: Bobby. wrote on Jan 10 th, 2019 at 5:12am: The vigilantes will love this new law.
They'll have rope ready. that would make you happy then bobby????.... you do incite taking the law into your own hands.... I dont want to see bodies hanging from lamp posts bobs.. not what I want for our country. On the contrary - I only ever asked for the law to be changed to have hanging as an option for courts. an eye for an eye.. bobby there is no difference.... it doesnt stop anything.....human nature is such we do not believe we will ever be caught.... and heaps arent .. so many missing people .. so many bodies found but no murderers .. if the death penalty stopped it why do they have so many on death rows in America?... And the vast majority are men.... and up to one in six could be falsely or wrongfully convicted for countless reasons... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_Project" The group cites various studies estimating that in the United States, between 2.3 and 5% of all prisoners are innocent"... This group deals ONLY with DNA exonerations, which are simply not applicable in most cases... "In 2000, Neil J. Miller was exonerated after serving 10 years of a 22-year prison sentence for the rape of a Boston college student. The Innocence Project and Cardozo law student E. Elliot Adler took the lead in Miller's case, representing only the second inmate in Massachusetts history to be cleared on DNA evidence. After Miller's exoneration, Lawrence Taylor, the true perpetrator of the crime, was identified.
In 2003, Steven Avery was exonerated after serving 18 years in prison for a sexual assault charge.
In 2004, Darryl Hunt was exonerated after serving 19 1/2 years in prison of a life sentence for the rape and murder of a newspaper copy editor, Deborah Sykes.
In 2007, after an investigation begun by The Innocence Project, James Calvin Tillman was exonerated after serving 16 1/2 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. His sentence was 45 years.
In 2007, Lynn DeJac's 1994 conviction was reversed on the basis of DNA evidence. She had been convicted of murdering her daughter Crystallynn Girard in February 1993. She was the first woman to be exonerated of murder on the basis of DNA evidence.
In 2007, Floyd Brown was exonerated for the murder of an 80-year-old woman in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Brown had served 14 years in Dorothea Dix Hospital and had the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He had been convicted solely on the basis of a false confession by a State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) agent, who claimed that Brown had dictated the confession to him; however, Brown's mental state precluded that possibility. Brown sued the state of North Carolina following his release.
In December 2009, James Bain was exonerated by DNA testing for a kidnapping, burglary, and rape he did not commit. Bain's appeal had previously been denied four separate times. His 35-year imprisonment made him the longest-incarcerated victim of a wrongful conviction to be freed through DNA evidence.
In June 2010, Barry Gibbs was awarded a civil rights settlement of $9.9 million from the City of New York. He received an additional $1.9 million settlement from New York State in late 2009. He was wrongly convicted of the 1986 murder of Brooklyn woman Virginia Robertson based on coerced testimony by a witness during the investigation by NYPD detective Louis Eppolito, who was later convicted for serving as a mob hit man on the side. Gibbs's original sentence was 20 years to life, of which he served just under 19 years. Gibbs had been repeatedly denied parole because of his lack of admission of guilt. Gibbs was exonerated in 2006 with help from the Innocence Project.
In September 2010, days before he was to be executed, Kevin Keith was granted clemency by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, thanks in part to the Ohio Innocence Project.
In February 2010, Greg Taylor was exonerated for the murder of a North Carolina woman after serving 17 years in prison. Taylor had been convicted without physical evidence, and the State Bureau of Investigation failed to report all of their testing results during Taylor's original trial. Taylor described his experience as "the perfect storm of bad luck."
In 2014, Glenn Ford was exonerated in the murder of Isadore Newman. Ford, an African American, had been convicted by an all-white jury without any physical evidence linking him to the crime, and with testimony withheld. He served 30 years on death row in Angola Prison before his release.
In 2016 Joseph A. Buffy was exonerated for rape and robbery of an elderly woman after serving 14 years.
In 2016 Andre Hatchett was exonerated after serving 25 years for second-degree murder he did not commit. This was based on the testimony of a career criminal, Gerard Williams, who claimed to have witnessed the killing. A private investigator, Maureen Kelleher, was instrumental in finding Williams.
In 2016 Richard Rosario after serving 20 years was exonerated for the murder of Bronx resident George Collazo".
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