More than 4% of those executed in the US innocent Bashny.Net

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One of 25 defendants in criminal cases, who were awarded death sentence in the US, most likely, wrongly convicted. The resulting figure of 4.1% was found after a new analysis of the death penalty and cases of exemption from liability on the United States for thirty years.

Bruce Levin, a statistician, not involved in the study, is convinced that it is carefully made and balanced approach. "The analysis was quite complicated, but the authors presented their methods and assumptions". Law Professor Samuel gross from the University of Michigan to receive the most accurate and reliable data to focus on actions that lead to death.

Gross and his colleagues collected data from the U.S. Department of justice and non-profit organization that monitors the performance of all 7482 of the death penalty in the United States from 1973 to 2004. In addition, the researchers analyzed the statistics of acquittals.

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This period was justified by 1.6% of defendants, while 4.1 percent were convicted falsely. Gross says: "the Main idea of the study show that false convictions are not uncommon. It happens all the time, and we should make every effort to avoid it."

Lawyer David Dow of the University of Houston said that the number of innocent executed does not surprise him, but he hoped that these facts will reduce the number of fatal errors. The calculations presented do not provide information about what led to the erroneous judicial verdict, but DOE is confident in the use of the obtained results for the legal system.

10 key facts about death executions

1. Every year in China executed more people than all other countries combined.

2. More than two-thirds of the world (139 countries) have banned the death penalty in law or do not apply it in practice.

3. Last year death sentences executions in 18 countries.

4. In Japan, Hakamada Iwao is on death row since 1968. It is believed that he spent on death row the longest in the world period.

5. Belarus is the only country in Europe which carried the death penalty.

6. In 2009, the US has handed down 106 death sentences — the lowest figure since 1977, when the country resumed the death penalty.

7. In Iran since the beginning of 2010 executed at least 190 people. According to data collected in recent years, the country has no less than 141 sentenced to death for the crimes at the time of Commission of which they are not under the age of 18, which is a violation of international law.

8. In 2010 marks 100 years since the last execution in Sweden — November 23, 1910 on the guillotine executed convict named Alfred Anderson.

9. In the United States on death row, there are more than 3,000 people, and in Pakistan, their number is estimated at about 7000.

10. In the case of Troy Davis, who for more than 19 years spent on death row in Georgia (USA), seven of nine witnesses who gave evidence against him later recanted their testimony or changed them under oath.



Source: nauka24news.ru/