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Re:When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's ... by twoodfin on Saturday April 07, 2012 @05:59PM (#3812262)
Sorry, are you aware of someone who can be proved to have been executed in the US within the past few decades for a crime they did not commit?

I'm aware of instances where "key witnesses" recant decades later (under what kind of pressure from defense attorneys or their own conscience I have no idea...) But I'm unaware of any instances where innocence was clearly established after an execution was carried out.

Re:When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's ... by greenyoda on Saturday April 07, 2012 @06:42PM (#3812369)
The Innocence Project reports that they've exonerated (via DNA evidence) 17 people who had already been sentenced to death and were awaiting execution:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/know

This strongly suggests that many other innocent people are still on death row or have already been executed, since the Innocence Project doesn't have the resources to investigate all cases of claimed innocence, and has to limit its efforts to saving people who are still alive.

The Wikipedia article on wrongful execution claims that "at least 39 executions are claimed to have been carried out in the U.S. in the face of evidence of innocence or serious doubt about guilt."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution

Re:When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's ... by twoodfin on Saturday April 07, 2012 @10:31PM (#3812817)
So pick the most convincing one that was actually executed. For such a charged issue, it's hard to take passive voice claims on Wikipedia too seriously.

Felker and Garrett are the only "specific examples" in that article from the US in the past few decades. Garrett sounds plausibly innocent, but there's certainly no posthumous proof. Similarly, Felker's alibi depends on autopsy results from a body found in a creek. Not really a slam dunk either.

Many anti-death penalty advocates believe (wrongly, I think) that it would be a huge boon to their cause if they could identify someone who was clearly innocent of the crime for which they were executed. oskarth apparently believes instances have already been found. I'm just looking for the current exemplar.

Re:When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's ... by FrankBooth on Saturday April 07, 2012 @06:10PM (#3812298)
Only around a hundred: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_in...

Why post a question like that if you're going to be so intellectually lazy?

Re:When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's ... by PetePorty on Saturday April 07, 2012 @06:23PM (#3812329)
Wholeheartedly agree; the people that make the most noise are generally those who have done the least research.
Re:When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's ... by twoodfin on Saturday April 07, 2012 @10:11PM (#3812789)
None of those people were actually executed, which was my question and oskarth's claim: That people in the US had been wrongfully executed. Not wrongfully sentenced to die.

Are you too lazy to read before posting a knee jerk Wikipedia page?

How about just posting one name of an executed prisoner?

Re:When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's ... by foxit on Sunday April 08, 2012 @06:50AM (#3813567)