|
|
|
Use this tool to learn about websites, specifically the one you just entered.
If you find some aspect of it inappropriate it is not our fault.
If you are the owner of this website: yes we are a real search engine, we do have a real web crawler called FyberSpider and you can block it if you feel the urge.
We are in the process of updating this tool. Until we are done just use our search results to check the inclusion status of your site.
Submit your site to major search engines within 48 hours.
Find out if your site has been cataloged by top search engines for only $8.99.
Below you will see site info taken directly from the URL you entered in real time. This is also known as our URL Breakdown tool and can be used independently of our site info tool.
DPIC "Innocence" List
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page.
"
CRITIQUE OF DPIC LIST (“INNOCENCE: FREED FROM
DEATH ROW” ) Ward A. Campbell [1]
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) Innocence
List (“Innocence: Freed from Death Row”) is frequently cited as support for
the claim that 102 innocent prisoners have been released from Death Rows
across the nation. [2]
This list is uncritically accepted as definitive. However, an examination of
the premises and sources of the List raises serious questions about whether
many of the allegedly innocent prisoners named on the List are actually
innocent at all.
Analysis of the cases on the List suggests that the
List exaggerates the number of inaccurate convictions. For many of its
cases, the List jumps to conclusions and misstates the implications of what
has happened in the various cases that it cites as involving “actually
innocent” defendants. The DPIC “falsely exonerates” many of the former
Death Row members on its List and misleads the public about the frequency of
wrongful convictions in terms of appraising the current capital punishment
system in this country.
In fact, it is arguable that at least 68 of the 102
defendants on the List should not be on the List at all–leaving only 34
released defendants with claims of actual innocence–less than ½ of 1% of
the 6,930 defendants sentenced to death between 1973 and 2000.
A. Background of DPIC List
The year 1972 marks the beginning of modern death
penalty jurisprudence in this country. That year, the United States Supreme
Court declared all death penalty statutes unconstitutional. Furman v.
Georgia 408 U.S. 238 (1972). The states immediately responded by
enacting various statutes tailored to meet the concerns expressed in
Furman . In 1976, the United States Supreme Court approved new death
penalty laws that narrowed the class of murderers"
....
read entire page
|
Links to Pages on Other Domain Names
|
|
