DPIC In-Depth Reports
Jul 01, 1997
Innocence and the Death Penalty: The Increasing Danger of Executing the Innocent
This report tells the stories of people like Rolando Cruz, released after 10 years on Illinois’s death row, despite the fact that another man had confessed to the crime shortly after his conviction; and Ricardo Aldape Guerra, who returned to Mexico after 15 years on Texas’s death row because of a prosecution that a federal judge called outrageous…