The years lost can never be given back, but punishment rained down upon those who were involved in wrongfully convicting you can be given.
I believe that if you are found to have been convicted upon false evidence, fraud or lying by either the police, prosecutors or witnesses. Then they all should be jailed and given the same punishment as the crime you were found guilty of.
And the state should be required to compensate you, $1 million dollars for every year you spent in jail.
Until we make the punishment for wrongfully convicting people so painful, that prosecutors and police begin to understand that peoples lives are actual in their hands. And we force them to do their jobs and do them correctly, this will not stop.
I was once for the death penalty. A strong supporter of it.
But now I'm no longer for it just for this very reason. I believe in the sprit of the death penalty, but I just feel that our criminal justice system is not sufficiently evolved enough to apply it correctly. And handle the responsibility that comes with properly investigations such cases.
I'd much rather have to let an innocent man out of prison after 5 or 10 years of incarceration, than to find out we put to death a truly innocent man.
“And the state should be required to compensate you, $1 million dollars for every year you spent in jail.”
I agree with you, but the 1 mil per year is a bit much... At that price, people would be gaming the system. A person could get himself convicted and hold back valuable evidence until he made a mil or two. Then prove himself innocent.