lizzie
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So I looked into how many innocent men have been put to death on my own because all the people saying this has happened have offered no evidence of their claims. All I found was this. A guy from the death penalty information center says if there was a retrial he would be found not guilty. This seems to be the closest thing there is to an innocent man being put to death. The guy even admits there is no evidence an innocent man has ever been put to death. Guess that ends this debate huh.
"If a new trial was somehow able to be conducted today, a jury would acquit DeLuna" said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, who read a draft of Liebman's report. "We don't have a perfect case where can agree that we have an innocent person who's been executed, but by weight of this investigation, I think we can say this is as close as a person is going to come."
Carlos DeLuna Execution: Texas Put To Death An Innocent Man, Columbia University Team Says
My experience has tended to be the same. People claim that innocent people have been executed, but I am not aware of any. The time period spent with death penalty convicts spans a pretty long period of time, and with DNA evidence, and improved criminal pathology technical capabilities, there should be ample time to discover if someone sentence to death is actually innocent of his/her crime.