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Number of Innocents on Death Row Mandate Moratorium

John Holdridge http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-holdridge/number-of-innocents-on-de_b_95524.htmlNumber of Innocents on Death Row Mandate Moratorium Posted April 7, 2008 | 06:57 PM (EST) Support for the death penalty in the U.S. is at its lowest point in many years. One of the primary reasons is the recent explosion in the number of death-row exonerations, which the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) now puts at 127. In response, some proponents of capital punishment have taken to arguing that many of the freed death-row prisoners are not in fact innocent. But their arguments do not hold up under the slightest of scrutiny. For example, a March 25 New York Times story by Adam Liptak quotes Oregon prosecutor Joshua Marquis as saying that the number of "authentic" death row exonerations since 1973 is not DPIC's 127 but "more like 30...continue to full post

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