1.0 link 95524 <![CDATA[Number of Innocents on Death Row Mandate Moratorium]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-holdridge/number-of-innocents-on-de_b_95524.html Support for the death penalty in the U.S. is at its lowest point in many years. One of the primary reasons is the recent explosion in the number of death-row exonerations, which the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) now puts at 127. In response, some proponents of capital punishment have taken to arguing that many of the freed death-row prisoners are not in fact innocent. But their arguments do not hold up under the slightest of scrutiny.

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