The death penalty deserves to be an issue this election season
It hasn't yet emerged as an issue in the presidential race, but the number of wrongly convicted people freed from death row continues to expose flaws in the way justice is carried out. Last week, the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center released a report on the number of exonerations, and found more than 100 people freed from wrongful conviction since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. (http://www.motherjones.com/news/blog/2004/09/MB_2004_39.html#1