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Each day, innocent men across America are thrown into jail, betrayed by the faulty justice system, and robbed of these lives - either by decades-long phrases or the loss of life penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from learn to finish. From the racial discrimination and violence employed by backwards police officials, to a jail culture that breeds inmate issue, there is chance of mistake at every switch. Award-winning journalist, Stanley Cohen, chronicles over 100 of the instances, from the 1973 case of the first ever loss of life row exoneree, David Keaton, to multiple instances by 2015 that resulted from the corrupt procedures of NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella (with almost 70 Brooklyn instances under review for wrongful conviction). In the wake of the unjust convictions, grassroots organizations, families, and pro bono legal professionals have battled this rampant wrongdoing. Cohen shows how eyewitness mistake, jailhouse snitch testimony, racism, junk knowledge, prosecutorial misconduct, and incompetent counsel have filled America's prisons with the innocent. Listeners attempt journeys with men who have been imprisoned, convicted, sentenced alive in jail or loss of life, dragged through the appeals system, and lastly set free based on their actual innocence. Although these stories end with vindication, there are those which have ended with unjustified execution. Convicting the Innocent will fuel controversy on the justice system that has sent the ultimate consequence almost 1,000 times since 1976, though it cannot promise accurate convictions.
