Miscarriage Justice Quotes

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.

The death penalty scares the hell out of me. We now see about one out of eight errors in these convictions.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people are being found guilty and the real criminals are wandering the streets.

Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Judging by past experience, a substantial number of death row inmates are indeed innocent and there is a high risk that some of them will be executed. Once an execution occurs, the error is final.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was a deliberately set fire, and then a whole chain of information became malevolent.Criminal past - that worked all in their favor to create this "monster" - and they even used the word "monster." It's like, let's ensure that the public thinks he's an evil individual.

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don't always get it right, even with that.

I don't want to live in a country that lies can prevail in court. Where you can walk into a courtroom and fabricate a story and then have appellate court judges uphold it after a jury has made a decision.

I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

People have died in jail that have been innocent.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.