Why death penalty opponents might be closer to their goal than they realize
Cases like these make the case against the death penalty much stronger: The controversial Willingham case, what Perry knew and when did he know it
A line from that piece speaks to some of my frustration with the appeals process, which often seems more concerned with protecting the system than the potentially-innocent: "The courts, however, were barred from reviewing anything that wasn’t classified as new evidence, rather than new science applied to old evidence, so the courts rejected Hurst’s findings on a technicality."
