Barry Scheck

Barry Scheck, the co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project and a professor at the Cardozo School of Law, goes on to say that the when looking at the costs and benefits of the death penalty the same conclusion is reached, either way the inmate will…

Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Shawn Holley, Carl E. Douglas, and Gerald Uelmen. In addition to this high-profile defense team, they also added additional attorneys, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, who specialized in DNA evidence. During the trial, Lance Ito presided over the case. His decisions and management of the trial proceedings played a pivotal role in both shaping the course of the case and capturing the nation’s…

The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. They created the Innocence Project to help wrongfully accused people get out of jail. They looked at cases where people were wrongfully incarcerated and through DNA, try to help them regain their freedom that they deserve. Their mission statement is “to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment”. Since the Innocence…

Frequent exonerations of innocent parties affect the entire legal system in a myriad of ways. Perhaps no challenge is greater to the integrity of the American criminal justice system than that of the conviction of innocent individuals. Since the1990’s when DNA evidence became more widely known and accepted, a great deal of attention has been focused on wrongly condemned individuals and their post-conviction exonerations. In many of these cases, defendants had been sentenced to death and were…

From 1973 to 2017, approximately one hundred and sixty-one inmates on death row have been released, due to their innocence (“Innocence: List of Those Freed From Death Row”). Yet, this year alone, forty-four executions have been scheduled and six inmates have been executed. Although the death penalty remains legal in some states, it is an out of date and inhumane way to deal with criminals and should be outlawed. Capital punishment has many disadvantages, including the cost, the consistency of…

Death penalty The death penalty is a thing that in the United States should abolish. The death in the United States should be abolished. The dictionary defines, “death penalty as the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime”. (Oxford Dictionaries n. pag).The death penalty should be abolished in the United States and the reasons are first the death penalty violates human rights of people .meaning that the rights of humans like the 8th amendment which…

Even though he was acquitted, countless people to this day still believe that Orenthal James Simpson murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in cold blood, on the night of June 12, 1994. There has been a great deal of debate over this case for years. The real question is; did he or did he not commit the murder? In the eyes of the twelve jurors on the case, he was found not guilty, but in the eyes of majority of the United States he is guilty. O.J. Simpson killed his ex-wife…