How Many People Are Wrongly Convicted? Researchers Do the Math. -- National Geographic "It’s impossible to say whether this 4.1 percent false conviction rate [among death row inmates] applies to defendants who never went to death row. But I’ll leave you with one last depressing thought. Of all of the people found guilty of capital murder, less than half actually get a death-penalty sentence. And when juries are determining whether to send a defendant to death row or to life in prison, surveys show that they tend to choose life sentences when they have 'residual doubt' about the defendant’s guilt. That means, then, that the rate of innocent defendants serving life in prison is higher than those on death row. 'They are sentenced,' the authors write, 'and then forgotten.'" Democracy's Deepening Recession -- The Atlantic "The democratic recession we're witnessing has been particularly visible in big 'swing states'—the non-Wes...