In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases
Radelet, Michael L.; Bedau, Hugo Adam; Putnam, Constance E.
Language: English
Published by Northeastern Univ Pr, 1992
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- Title
- In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases
- Author
- Radelet, Michael L.; Bedau, Hugo Adam; Putnam, Constance E.
- Publisher
- Northeastern Univ Pr
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1555531423
- ISBN 13
- 9781555531423
- Item weight
- 748 grams
- Dimensions
- 15.88 centimeters width by 23.5 centimeters height by 3.81 centimeters depth
The volume confronts the reader with how easily safeguards against mistaken convictions can fail. In showing that ordinary citizens, in spite of their innocence, can become trapped in the machinery of justice - even sentenced to die - the authors deliver a strong indictment against capital punishment.
Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam recount in alarming detail the mistaken identities, perjured witnesses, overzealous prosecutions, and negligent police work that led to more than 400 people being erroneously convicted of capital or potentially capital crimes in this country between 1900 and 1991. The authors describe the arduous routes these defendants traveled to prove their innocence; they demonstrate how frequently luck played a crucial role in freeing an innocent defendant; and they show how, all too often, public officials remained indifferent to evidence that an innocent person had been sentenced to death.
"Most Americans do not seriously distrust our criminal justice system or the efficiency and dedication of law enforcement officers," the authors acknowledge in their introduction. "At the same time we know that public servants are not infallible, and that honest errors and occasionally outright corruption do occur. How frequently in the past has the criminal justice system failed in a capital case to convict only the guilty? What explains these failures? How likely are they to happen in the future? How, if at all, can they be remedied or prevented?"
Radelet, Bedau, and Putnam argue that there is no remedy, no way to eliminate the risk of failures, even in what is admittedly the world's best criminal justice system, except to abolish the death penalty.
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