{"id":6433,"date":"2015-05-30T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2015-05-30T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T23:30:13","slug":"30-years-on-death-row-but-youre-innocent-when-youre-freed-the-prosecutor-comes-to-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/30\/30-years-on-death-row-but-youre-innocent-when-youre-freed-the-prosecutor-comes-to-apologize\/","title":{"rendered":"30 years on death row but you&#039;re innocent. When you&#039;re freed, the prosecutor comes to apologize."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, this type of miscarriage of justice isn&#8217;t an isolated one-off case.According to researcher estimates, about 4.1% of death penalty convictions are erroneous. In other words, for every 100 people on death row, at least four people shouldn&#8217;t be there. And that&#8217;s not even looking at those wrongly convicted of smaller crimes with lesser penalties.Sadly, the people it usually happens to are those who can&#8217;t afford the most highly qualified defense attorneys and who can&#8217;t keep paying legal fees to appeal. And they&#8217;re mostly people of color. The National Exonerations Registry shows that as of 2015, 60% of exonerations after a wrongful conviction were for non-white defendants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/30-years-on-death-row-but-youre-innocent-when-youre-freed-the-prosecutor-comes-to-apologize\">30 years on death row but you&#8217;re innocent. When you&#8217;re freed, the prosecutor comes to apologize.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, this type of miscarriage of justice isn&#8217;t an isolated one-off case.According to researcher estimates, about 4.1% of death penalty convictions are erroneous. In other words, for every 100 people on death row, at least four people shouldn&#8217;t be there. And that&#8217;s not even looking at those wrongly convicted of smaller crimes with lesser penalties.Sadly, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/30\/30-years-on-death-row-but-youre-innocent-when-youre-freed-the-prosecutor-comes-to-apologize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;30 years on death row but you&#039;re innocent. When you&#039;re freed, the prosecutor comes to apologize.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}