http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/runestones.blogspot.com/2007/01/posthumous-justice.html Comments & Reviews of http://runestones.blogspot.com/2007/01/posthumous-justice.html on StumbleUpon en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:16:49 -0700 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:42:05 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/runestones.blogspot.com/2007/01/posthumous-justice.html http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:39:42 -0700 http://b-j-t-j.stumbleupon.com/review/9026863/ B-J-T-J - Posthumous Justice Since the Supreme Court reinstated the "modern" death penalty in 1976, 1,060 inmates have been executed in the U.S. Proponents of the death penalty have long denied that any--not even one--of those executed was innocent of the crime that placed them on Death Row. They've argued that the many legal safeguards in place serve as a rigorous filter to ensure that only the truly guilty suffer the ultimate legal sanction. These safeguards include fine-grained state and federal appeal processes that can consume decades and the availability of post-conviction relief though the increased use of DNA and other scientific evidence. But as refined scientific investigative techniques (like DNA analysis) become more widely available, there's more reason to believe that the executions of innocent persons may have been more common than we have been led to believe.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/runestones.blogspot.com/2007/01/posthumous-justice.html