Like so many inmates in the prisons today, there are many on death row who simply should not be there. Because of the seriousness of the crimes committed, death row exoneration’s are rare, unless they are exonerated by DNA. When someone is wrongfully convicted, they can spend years lost in the prisons of your state, but to be wrongfully incarcerated can have widespread repercussions on the inmate in question, especially if they happen to run across someone in prison who has an ax to grind with them. Inmates can make it through their term and be released into society, but if they were innocent in the first place, they would have served time of an offense that they never committed. We all know that mistakes can be made, although when Thomas Haynesworth was sentenced as a serial rapist, a crime that he obviously never committed, the mistakes by the attorney general’s office (without a letter of exoneration) will likely follow him until he dies. It is these “mistakes” that help us to identify with juries like the one in the Casey Anthony trial. In addition to his time served, Thomas will now have the companions of his stay behind bars to call his friends, because this is what our society has turned him into.
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