The death penalty and the Three Strikes Law are unfair and costly

Rebecca Silbert, Andrea Russi’s report cited in San Jose Mercury News, October 31, 2012

A study on exonerations by the UC Berkeley School of Law and Hollway Advisory Services, a criminal justice research firm, found California leads the nation with 120 since 1989. That’s more than Texas (100) and New York (100). More than 40 percent of those wrongful convictions involved prisoners who were sentenced to more than 20 years.