Note from Rachel 10/9: Wrongful Convictions and Capital Punishment

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Rachel Barkow is the Charles Seligson Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the Faculty Director of the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at NYU. From 2013 to 2019, she served as a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission. From 2010 to 2020, she was a member of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Policy Advisory Panel and co-chaired Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s transition committee on police accountability in 2021. She is also amongst the most cited legal scholars of all time. For a transcript of Rachel’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.7	Hey folks, Rachel here.
0:33.7	Here's a recording of my latest cafe note,
0:36.1	wrongful convictions and capital punishment.
0:38.5	As always, please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters at cafe.com.
0:47.9	Dear listener, the administration of criminal law in America is not perfect. Far from it.
0:54.0	Hundreds of people have been exonerated
0:55.9	after being convicted and often serving decades in prison for crimes they did not commit. A huge
1:02.1	proportion of the exoneries are people of color. Almost 84% of the people exonerated last year were
1:08.4	people of color and nearly 61% were black. Exonerations have
1:13.1	taken place all across the country, and in a variety of cases, including capital cases.
1:18.7	Since 1973, 200 people who were on death row were exonerated, four in the last year. As in cases
1:26.0	overall, the proven wrongful convictions on death row
1:29.1	have also been disproportionately given to people of color. Sixty-five percent of the cases
1:34.3	involved a person of color and 108 of the 200 exoneries were black. This is the tip of an
1:40.8	enormous iceberg. These exoneries are the rare people who are fortunate enough
1:45.9	to have DNA evidence that conclusively establish their innocence, and lawyers who could help them
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