In their book Manufacturing Guilt, Barry and Dawn Anderson quote criminological evidence that on the back of best estimates one percent of all convictions are in fact wrongful.[2]  Andersons write that these include cases that do not distinguish between personal and property offences or between violent and non-violent crimes.[3]  By applying this estimate to Canada, in 2010, 87,214 cases resulted in a sentence of incarceration.[4]  Using the assumption that… [read post]

Georgia, 408 U.S.238) The majority of the Court concentrated its objections on the way death-penalty laws had been applied, finding the result so "harsh, freakish, and arbitrary" as to be constitutionally unacceptable. [read post]