14 years on death row

I wrote about my position on the death penalty a few weeks ago. I won’t even say “coincidentally” because stories like this are so common (I do not go looking for them), but conservative columnist Jacob Sullum writes about a man on Louisiana’s death row for 14 years through serious prosecutorial misconduct – withholding proof that a murderer had Type B blood while the defendant had Type O.

And if you are so inclined, don’t tell me the story proves that “the system works.” The system worked only because two dogged lawyers, God bless ’em, were working the case for free.