new report on the death penalty

The Death Penalty Information Center has a new report titled 'Innocence and the Crisis in the American Death Penalty.' This report describes how the exoneration and release of 116 death row inmates in 25 states is having a profound effect on the capital punishment debate in this country.



'The inmates who have been freed spent a total of over 1000 years between sentencing and exoneration. The average exoneration took 9 years.'