Melissa Harris-Perry posted New report exposes wrongful convictions.
"The National Registry of Exonerations, a brand-new joint project between Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, released its first report on Monday. To date, it has examined nearly 900 individual cases of prisoners exonerated in the United States from January, 1989 through February, 2012.
The findings thus far? Nearly half of those were wrongfully convicted of murder, and 101 were wrongfully sentenced to death:"
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