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Saturday, November 21, 2015

Legal Murder of Innocent Lives

Let us say that somebody gets sentenced to state execution and then later on, they were proven innocent. Would a legal case be sown up accusing the government of murder? What would be the repercussions if someone related were to somehow purse a legal case accusing the government of murder? Who would face the consequences? What would be the consequences?
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  1. Prof. John TalbirdNovember 24, 2015 at 11:43 AM

    This is a good question, Muhammad. You might be interested in the work of The Innocence Project:
    http://www.innocenceproject.org/
    If you peruse the sample cases of convicts who spent 10 or more years in jail and then were later proven innocent and set free, you'll be shocked to discover that these wrongly convicted are often given very little money if any for the years of their lives they've given for a crime they didn't commit. With that known, what do you think the likely answer is to your very good questions? Add to that that after an execution, the protocol is to destroy the evidence, then that probably tells the likelihood of anyone being exonerated post-execution (a state probably has little incentive to discover that they executed an innocent person either...).

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