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  1. A 2014 study estimated that at least 4% of those sentenced to death are innocent. These numbers don’t demonstrate the full scope of the impact that the death penalty has on the problem of wrongful conviction as the threat of the death penalty causes innocent people to plead guilty and induces false testimony from witnesses.

  2. Jun 9, 2021 · America's Dangerous Obsession With Innocence - The Atlantic. Ideas. Not That Innocent. Most people on death row are guilty. That doesn’t mean they deserve their fate. By Elizabeth Bruenig. Justin...

  3. Dec 28, 2004 · Death of Innocence is an essential document in the annals of American civil rights history, and a painful yet beautiful account of a mother’s ability to transform tragedy into boundless courage and hope.

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    • Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher D Benson
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  5. Dec 28, 2004 · Death of Innocence is an essential document in the annals of American civil rights history, and a painful yet beautiful account of a mother’s ability to transform tragedy into boundless...

  6. Death of Innocence is an essential document in the annals of American civil rights history, and a painful yet beautiful account of a mother’s ability to transform tragedy into boundless courage and hope.

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  7. Jan 1, 2003 · Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of one such hero: Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till—an innocent fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and who paid for it with his life.

  8. Sep 8, 2023 · Innocence. The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1973, at least 197 people who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated.

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