SAYING you’re innocent and having your conviction overturned because you ARE innocent are two different things. Even YOU know that. When DNA wasn’t around to prove someone’s innocence, and technology available today can do it, then working to get the innocent out of prison is what should happen. It isn’t grace — it’s justice.
I realize it’s difficult to understand compassion and have mercy for someone who has a criminal history, unless you KNOW someone like that — unless you LOVE someone and KNOW someone who has experienced the devastation of being wrongfully convicted — or who has served their time and is working hard to start a new life after paying for their crimes. Hopefully you never will....
“SAYING you’re innocent and having your conviction overturned because you ARE innocent are two different things.”
They all say they’re innocent.
If you’re Guilty and you’re trying to get out or avoid the needle by claiming you’re “innocent”, there’s a word for that: LYING