The ACLU says 131 in the "modern death penalty era" have been exonerated from death row. http://www.aclu.org/capital/innocence/index.html
The problem with getting statistics on how many innocent people have actually been executed is that usually after the execution, there is no more investigation needed. The sheer amount of people who have been cleared after being on death row is argument enough in my opinion. These people often spend years of their lives on death row; those years have been stolen from them by a completely faulty judicial system.
The problem with getting statistics on how many innocent people have actually been executed is that usually after the execution, there is no more investigation needed. The sheer amount of people who have been cleared after being on death row is argument enough in my opinion. These people often spend years of their lives on death row; those years have been stolen from them by a completely faulty judicial system.
