Essay On Wrongful Convictions

Wrongful convictions can occur daily all over the world for several reasons. There are many reasons from false statements, police misconduct, false eye witness identification, investigation wrong doings, evidence mishandle and many more issues that force innocent people to be convicted of crimes they never committed. We need to be able to have law officers, eye witness’s whoever is making false statements or identifications or just over looking evidence those individuals need to be punished.

Wrongful convictions are not just something that happens to people there is something that is done to cause them to be convicted; lack of evidence, people misconduct, and false information in general and many times the law officials are the ones behind

Mr. McCollum and his half-brother (Biesecker) “spent three decades in prison not knowing if they would ever be freed for being wrongfully convicted in 1983 for the rape and killing of a girl”; new DNA evidence shows they did not commit the crime. McCollum states, (Biesecker) “He watched 42 men sit on death row and make their last walk to the nearby death chamber to receive lethal injections, he believed many were innocent, if not for a series of lawsuits that had blocked any executions in the state of North Carolina since 2006, McCollum states he would have been put to death years ago”. (Biesecker) “McCollum expressed his belief that there are still other innocent men on the inside, he is the seventh death row inmate freed in North Carolina since 1976, the year the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court”. (Biesecker) “McCollum and his half-brother were never near the crime scene or had anything to do with it, but the man that did; lived less than a few miles down the road, and his DNA matched the DNA found on the cigarette butt near the victim”. If not for a new prosecutor and his acknowledgement of McCollum and Brown’s innocence the two would have been put to death for something they had nothing to do