{"id":57400,"date":"2016-02-04T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57400"},"modified":"2016-02-03T13:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T19:56:29","slug":"why-i-oppose-the-death-penalty-part-mmmix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57400","title":{"rendered":"Why I Oppose The Death Penalty, Part MMMIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convictions gained through official misconduct; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-exonerations-idUSKCN0VC0D6?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=domesticNews\">it&#8217;s not just for Manitowoc County Wisconsin any more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among those exonerated, 58 had been convicted of homicide, including five people who had been sentenced to death, it said. About three-quarters of the homicide exonerations included official misconduct, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Another large group involved drug possession. Many times people held in custody falsely confessed to a crime to avoid a trial where they faced much longer sentences, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Texas was the top state for exonerations, propelled by conviction integrity units set up in its most populous counties. The state known for its tough approach on crime has also been a national leader in prosecutorial reform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the integrity of the system, it is the right thing to do,&#8221; said Inger Chandler, head of the Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s Conviction Review Section, where there were 42 exonerations in 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As long as prosecutors&#8217; employment depends on politics, our &#8220;Justice&#8221; system will have a noxious layer of endemic injustice baked in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convictions gained through official misconduct; it&#8217;s not just for Manitowoc County Wisconsin any more. Among those exonerated, 58 had been convicted of homicide, including five people who had been sentenced to death, it said. About three-quarters of the homicide exonerations included official misconduct, it said. Another large group involved drug possession. Many times people held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57401,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57400\/revisions\/57401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}