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Death Row Exonerations Point to Flaws in System

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Alison Bath's report in the Sunday edition of the Shreveport Times.  LINKEight men have been found innocent of the crimes that put them on Louisiana's death row. All were exonerated before they were put to death and ultimately freed from prison. Most often, those exonerations came after it was revealed that prosecutors withheld evidence that was favorable to the defendant, relied on the testimony of a jailhouse snitch or used faulty eyewitness identification to gain a conviction. Those men aren't alone. Nationwide, 139 people sentenced to death since 1973 subsequently have been found innocent and released from death row, according to data provided by the Washington D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 25, 2010 (boomark / email).