Weblog Assignment #2

" Center on Wrongful Convictions " showed some official statistics of Illinois wrongful convictions in the twentieth century center by Northwestern University School of Law. The parentheses included 100 innocent persons who had punishment beacuse of merder or rape. Following the name we can see their years of arrest, years of exoneration (or years of release if it occurred before the exoneration), the principal crime charged, and the sentence. Juile Rea Harper was an example of wrongful convictions in the recent years. She was acquitted by a jury in Clinton County, July 26, 2006, of the 1997 murder of her 10-year-old son with no demonstrable motive. At last, because of an audio recording of Sells, the real murder, Juile has been proven innocent.

The article on the website shakes me up that there are so many innocent people who have to be in jail or have to accept the punishment that shouldn't be part of their lives. Juile Rea Harper was sad enough from losing her son, but what was worse, she was put in jail wrongly and wasted about 10 years in jail.Who can tell her about the consequences, if police officers cannot catch the real hatchet man? The almost 100 instance means that the society's secruity system is not perfect. As the science and technology is developing all the time, there are more and more methods that can help police to figure out ctiminals, using things such fringerprints, study of handwriting, lie detectors, and DNA. There will be a lot fewer innocent people who are jailed wrongly in the not-too-distant future.