Wrongful Executions: “Fail-Safe” Judicial Systems Do Fail

By Gretchen Cothron
Forensic Research Consultant
Throughout the history of capital punishment in the United States, innocent people have been wrongfully convicted and executed. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia opined in State v. Marsh that, “the dissent does not discuss a single case — not one — in which it is clear that [...]