On May 10, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Mr. WD wrote:
> On 5/10/07, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>> So then why is it that so much DNA work associated with death-row
>> cases
>> shows that these people were innocent?
>>
>> Joanna
>
> There have been 123 death row exonerations since 1973 according to the
> Death Penalty Information Center. As of January 1, 2007, there were
> 3,350 people on death row in the U.S. That's 0.036% of cases.
>
No, that's 3.6% of cases - two orders of magnitude larger.
Michael McIntyre http://morbidsymptoms.blogspot.com