The Death Penalty and the Innocent

If as the article claims, there have been 23 executions in this century of the clearly innocent, how can executions continue to be justified? The only exception might be a confession of guilt and a request for execution, as is the case in a recent hanging. Even there, the state's hand remains bloody. Richard J. Furnoy, Loomis, Calif.

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