Proven Guilty?

I know this is a very long article, but it is also quite good. It's an amazing and awful story about a man wrongfully killed by our justice system.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann?current

Without the death penalty, he would probably be free right now. 12 years in prison for something you didn't do is still terrible, but at least he'd still be alive.

Comments

[WillS]

Very interesting article, if rather long, and normal for the NYer. But crazy, and so sad a story. Too, it reminds me of other injustices of our justice system I've read recently--such as, for one, the release after only 11 years of convicted sexual kidnapper Garrido (sentenced to 50 years) or, as I read of in the AirTran seatback rag this month, the lifetime imprisonment without possibility of parole of a man in Louisana for "drug possession". Not further details there but, at face value, incongruous.