Each year some states send innocent people to death row who have been wrongly convicted. Since the beginning of 1973, 151 people have been released from death rows throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. In 2003, 10 convicted defendants were released from death row. In such cases you would not want to sentence an innocent man/female to death. For example, Michael Blair vs. Texas After serving 14 years on Texas’ death row for a murder he did not commit, Michael Blair was exonerated and released in 2008 when a series of DNA tests proved his innocence. Blair was the 17th person in the United States who spent time on death row and was subsequently exonerated by DNA testing. After the fact George w. bush passed and signed a law name Ashley’s law led state lawmakers to expand the punishment for sex offenders, in an effort to prevent murders like the murder of Ashley
Each year some states send innocent people to death row who have been wrongly convicted. Since the beginning of 1973, 151 people have been released from death rows throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. In 2003, 10 convicted defendants were released from death row. In such cases you would not want to sentence an innocent man/female to death. For example, Michael Blair vs. Texas After serving 14 years on Texas’ death row for a murder he did not commit, Michael Blair was exonerated and released in 2008 when a series of DNA tests proved his innocence. Blair was the 17th person in the United States who spent time on death row and was subsequently exonerated by DNA testing. After the fact George w. bush passed and signed a law name Ashley’s law led state lawmakers to expand the punishment for sex offenders, in an effort to prevent murders like the murder of Ashley