Roger Harrington

American Crime Stories Volume 2 Roger Harrington

AMERICAN CRIME STORIES VOLUME 2: Innocent and Conviction - 2 Books in 1Featuring... *Innocent*Conviction
2 Great Books in 1!
Innocent
Statistics show that no less than 4 percent of those that are on death row today are innocent. In the first study of its kind, a team concluded that out of the 8000 men and women who have been sentenced to death row since the 1970s, at least 200of those were innocent. The numbers, of course, are very conservative. However, the number shows that it is possible that there have been more than 200 people put to death for crimes that they have never committed and the real criminal went unpunished. This is a very disturbing statistic because it proves that despite our best efforts to prove that justice is served, a large number of innocent people have been put to death.
Conviction
In 2007, the murder of Meredith Kercher inItaly was one of the most high profile cases in the past few decades. The young British exchange student had been killed by an unknown perpetrator while studying abroad, and for many years, the main suspect in the investigation was her roommate - Amanda Knox. Knox was eventually imprisoned for her roommate's mysterious death, serving several years in prison for a crime she was tenuously linked to. In 2015, it became clear that Amanda Knox had no involvement whatsoever in Meredith Kercher's death. DNA evidence proved that her murder was carried out at the hands of another suspect entirely.
Despite what the media, law enforcement and the general public strongly believed for almost a decade - they were all incorrect. In 1993, three small boys from the West Memphis area of Arkansas went out to play on their bicycles in their neighborhood. The same day, all three boys were found dead in a local wooded area. Authorities immediately pinned the blame on three local teenage boys: Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelly and Jason Baldwin - more famously known as the West Memphis Three...