"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer" [William Blackstone Commentaries]"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity" [Alexander Solzhenitsyn Letter to three students]"Justice should not only be done, but should ...
One consequence is also displayed by Portgas D. Ace. Monkey D. Garp wanted Ace and Luffy to become Marines, however Ace grew up being hated for his existence as the Son of the Pirate King and this painted his perception of the world. This led him to learn to follow in his father's ...
Capital punishment has failed to reduce violent crime and is disproportionately apportioned to the poor and black and brown people. It has also cost innocent lives. According to theEqual Justice Initiative, for every nine people executed in this country since the reinstatement of capital punishment, ...
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer" [William Blackstone Commentaries]"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity" [Alexander Solzhenitsyn Letter to three students]"Justice should not only be done, but should ...
摘要: Part social commentary, part love story, this powerful memoir chronicles the authors' cross-country journey to talk to formerly condemned inmates and how they turned this experience into the best play of the year ( The New York......
While our system of government, just like all others, is imperfect, we have several checks and balances built into the system to help ensure accuracy. There are rare occasions when the innocent are punished, but until all the criminals come forward on their own to admit their crimes, we can...
Eggers for her successful pro bono representation of Franky Carrillo, an innocent man who spent 20 years in prison until his exoneration in 2011. Ms. Eggers has long been active in the movement to end the death penalty, is a regular public speaker on the issue and serves on the board of...
(DNA) evidence and testing to exonerate inmates wrongly convicted and incarcerated. In this way, the Innocence Project seeks to reform the criminal justice system and provide justice to innocent individuals who are wrongly convicted. Similarly, the DNA Field Experiment (National Institute of Justice,...
Nowhere is the problem clearer than in the arena of actual innocence, where the failure to consider a condemned inmate's claim on the merits could lead to the execution of an innocent person. This Article argues that the Supreme Court's 2009 response to a petition for an original writ of ...
Rueben Cantuopted for a simple meal of fried chicken and rice. Cantuwas convicted of an armed robbery murder; however, the eyewitnesses who fingered him have since recanted. It is quite possible Cantu died innocent of the crime for which he was convicted, instead possibly framed in an act ...