Quote:
|
Report Finds Record Number Of U.S. Exonerations In 2015 HOUSTON (CBSDW.COM/AP) – The U.S. saw a record number of exonerations in 2015, with nearly 40 percent of the cases involving individuals who were exonerated in homicides, a new report shows. The National Registry of Exonerations said in its report Wednesday that 149 people falsely convicted of crimes were exonerated last year. That’s 10 more than in 2014, the year with the previous highest total since the group began keeping records in 1989. The registry is a project of the University of Michigan Law School and has documented more than 1,730 such cases in the U.S. Since 2011, the annual number of exonerations has more than doubled and there are now an average of nearly three exonerations a week, said Samuel Gross, a University of Michigan law professor and registry editor. .... |
http://ift.tt/1P7nRXP
Make it harder to lock people up. Easier to throw away the key, IMO.
:judge:
We lock people up too easily.