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To: Bill who wrote (3528)	3/19/2002 5:03:48 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21057

I stand corrected: there were five proven cases of innocence: Thomas Sophonow for a donut shop murder committed by another; Donald Marshall from Nova Scotia; Benoit Proulx wrongfully convicted of killing an ex-girlfriend; Guy Paul Morin for the killing of a child; and David Milgaard of Saskatchewan, who served 23 years for a murder he didn't commit. It is likely that the very fact Canada does not have the death penalty allows time for circumstance and investigation to discover the truth. Death sort of closes the door on most defensive efforts... Also, the modern techniques of DNA analysis, etc. have been useful. Morin, in the above, was proven innocent after DNA analysis much after the fact. The evidence is mostly that the Canadian errors were due more to mistakes than corruption...so in a large population such as the United States, well...one can only hope they were all guilty, I guess. It would be horrible to have the world take you out if you were truly innocent...

To: Bill who wrote (3528)	3/19/2002 10:17:40 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

There have been a whole bunch of men convicted of rape eventually released because DNA tests proved the rapist was some other guy. Being alive, still, they could, years after their conviction, still get some outsider convinced enough of their innocence that their cases weren't forgotten. And they have families to fight for their innocent member, the still-living innocents do. Not the dead ones. Of course if they'd been executed, no one would have demanded the case be reopened. Do you really think there are more wrongfully convicted rapists than there are wrongfully convicted murderers? I can't imagine why anyone would think that. I mean, there is often an eye witness who got a close up look in a rape case. I did post some cases to JCD relating to this subject.