Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Will You Die For Your Crimes - SpeechPrsnt
Will You Die For Your Crimes - SpeechPrsnt
Raymond Landry
Eddie Ives.
A noose couldn't crack my neck.
I'm too small to spring the trap."
We're very
hard pressed
to find really
strong
evidence of
deterrence.
At least 4.1% of
all defendants
sentenced to
death in the US
from 1973-2004
are innocent
This is a disturbing
finding. There are a large
number of people who are
sentenced to death, and
despite our best efforts
some of them have
undoubtedly been
executed.
70%
may have been a mistake, rooted in factual
errors or a process biased against the poor.
Leo Echegaray