Entries by Melanie Nolan

DPI​’s​“What to Know” series exam­ines cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment from mul­ti­ple angles, one top­ic at a time. Each install­ment pro­vides essen­tial facts and data on spe­cif­ic aspects of the death penal­ty. Why it mat­ters: More than 600 cap­i­tal con­vic­tions or death sen­tences have been over­turned or led to exon­er­a­tions because of pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al mis­con­duct, and researchers say the true scope of the prob­lem is like­ly far greater. — DPI has iden­ti­fied more than 600…

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