Comments on: DNA Exonerates Man In Prison For 26 Years

Convicted Of Rape In 1981, Texas Inmate Freed After DNA Test Proves His Innocence

[slim1h2o]

To paraphrase;
There''s something rotten in Texas

[pam1sadge]

It is awful for anyone who is innocent to spend one day in jail. Our judicial system is structured on people telling the truth instead of pointing the finger in a line-up if you have any doubts. This seems to be what has put so many people behind bars when they were innocent from the start. A victim who wants justice may be less than 100% sure of who they are convicting. Therein lies the problem.

[random_radar]

When an innocent man goes to prison, a guilty man goes free. That should bother us a lot more than it does for two reasons. First, we are not just when we rush to judgment and convict people on faulty evidence. Second, we have a false sense of security believing that the murderers and rapists are in prison when they are actually still living next door and plotting their next crime.

But it appears that our society prefers to throw lots of innocent people in jail under the assumption that if enough people get imprisoned, we will surely catch all the crooks. When you find yourself behind bars for a crime you didn''t commit, things will appear far different. It must be awful to spend years in prison knowing you are innocent.