Continuing the recent trend, Maryland has abolished its death penalty. Given the serious flaws in our CJ system and the execution of numerous persons who were exonerated after or or near execution, I applaud this trend. If you can't fix the system, then get rid of it.
For an excellent book on the subject of innocent people being see, "Convicting the Innocent" by Brandon L. Garret (2011) and "Prosecution "Complex: America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent," by Daniel S. Medwed, 2012. For a very readable non-fiction case study by John Grisham see "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a small town," (2006, paperback, 2012).
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