JoeB131
Diamond Member
Yup in Japan they have like a 97 percent conviction rate cause they don't arrest and try people they cant convict lived in Okinawa for 4 years as a Marine. The Japanese cops are not playing around.
Again, we've sent 153 people to DEATH ROW for crimes they didn't commit.
Jailed but Innocent: Record Number of People Exonerated in 2015
A record-breaking number of people were exonerated in 2015 — freed after serving time in American prisons for crimes they did not commit.
In all, 149 people spent an average of 15 years in prison before being cleared last year, according to a new report (.pdf) out Wednesday from theNational Registry of Exonerations, a project at the University of Michigan Law School.
The convictions ranged from lower level offenses, such as 47 drug crimes, to major felonies, including 54 murder convictions that were overturned. Five of the convicts were awaiting execution, and were saved last year when courts ruled they didn't belong in the prison in the first place.
Of the people wrongly convicted for homicides, the report notes, "more than two-thirds were minorities, including half who were African American."