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...many innocent Americans have found themselves on death row. In the last fourteen years, over 87 people--one for every seven that have been executed--have been exonerated after a wrongful conviction and death sentence. The death penalty is a punishment that should never be imposed, and it should certainly never be imposed on the innocent. Unfortunately, too few of our national leaders have been willing to recognize and address this epidemic of failure in the justice system. A new bill introduced in Congress, while not perfect, would do much to prevent the execution of the innocent...
...first increases the availability of DNA testing to the wrongfully convicted. Eight men have been released from death row and scores more from prison after DNA tests revealed their innocence; many of them were convicted before effective DNA techniques were developed. In some states, however, the prosecution may refuse to release samples for DNA testing after conviction. Many states also have time limits, some as low as six months after conviction, beyond which no new evidence of innocence may be introduced--even though wrongfully convicted inmates are incarcerated for seven and a half years on average before their innocence...
...sixth game in a row in which Harvard failed to outscore its opponents in the second half, the continuation of a dangerous trend...
...these conditions may be nearly inevitable, since incredibly improbable events should not occur so quickly. But my skeptical side retorts that good luck in one try proves nothing. I may win the lottery the first time I buy a ticket, and I might flip 10 heads in a row on my first sequence of tosses...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., DuBois professor of the humanities, slipped into the theater just as the festivities began. University Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 was seated in the front row of the theater, next to Nancy-Beth G. Sheerr '71--a principal negotiator of last fall's merger agreement between Radcliffe College and Harvard...