African Americans are much more likely to be wrongfully convicted of a murder, sexual assault or drug offense than whites. When people are wrongfully convicted of murder, a real murderer goes free, and the pain of the crime invests in yet another family. Which makes you wonder where exactly the justice is to be found in the criminal justice system. There’s more at stake here than the already bad-enough theft of years of freedom from the wrongfully convicted. In California, about 30 of the 749 current death row inmates, using that formula, were likely wrongfully convicted.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 07, 2017 18:11 UTC