The Summer 2004 Drake Law Review includes arti­cles based on a recent Symposium on Wrongful Convictions fea­tur­ing some of the nation’s lead­ing experts on inno­cence and the death penal­ty. The arti­cles pro­vide a detailed overview of the issue of inno­cence and exam­ine wrong­ful con­vic­tions from a num­ber of per­sec­tives, includ­ing the role of crim­i­nal case review in cor­rect­ing mis­car­riages of jus­tice, the need to record police inter­ro­ga­tions, the impact of inno­cence on vic­tims’ fam­i­ly mem­bers, and com­pen­sat­ing those who were wrong­ly impris­oned. In addi­tion, the sym­po­sium high­light­ed the work of the death penal­ty com­mis­sions in Illinois and North Carolina. Among those fea­tured are Hugo Bedau, Michael Radelet, Thomas Sullivan, and Steven Drizin. (Drake Law Review, Summer 2004) See Innocence and Law Reviews.

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