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Guilty, innocent - who knows?
The rate at which death row prisoners have been released due to current day forensic standards is a damning indictment of any justice system.
This says exactly what standard of justice is available in US courts...
The court held in the case of Herrera v Collins that, without more, "claims of actual innocence based on newly discovered evidence have never been held to state a ground for federal habeas relief." Translated into English, this means that as long as the trial seemed superficially fair - the lawyers were awake, the judge unbiased - the fact that it reached a spectacularly erroneous result is simply not an issue.
And a prosection counsel attempting to wash his hands, matches the quality of those in the legal profession (tho, there are plenty honorable individuals with higher standards than Dan Gershutz) -
"Even though this new evidence may establish Mr Richey's innocence, the Ohio and United States constitution nonetheless allow him to be executed because the prosecution did not know the scientific testimony offered at the trial was false and unreliable." - Kenny Richey's prosecutor, Dan Gershutz.
It is little surprise other nations do not cooperate with the US on death sentence extradition cases - they have progressed above the level of lynch mobs and most actually have a credible justice system and penalties above the level of caveman-think.
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XXX TLD's - Another mosquito to swat.
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