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Seventy-five men and women have been freed from what was to be their wrongful death because a further investigation into their case proved them to be innocent. Since 1977 when the U.S. Supreme Court reenacted the law to enforce the death penalty, 486 prisoners have been executed. At the time that John McCormick wrote his Newsweek article titled "The Wrongly Condemned" in which he exposed the faults and flaws of the justice system, 3,517 inmates lay on death-row. If The Swift Justice Measure bill was passed by the state assembly, all capital offense cases would be put in fast-track to execution. The amount of time taken during the trial, sentencing, appeals, and execution would be fast-forwarded, hardly leaving enough time to even look at the case. On average, the seventy-five inmates spent seven years on death-row before being able to prove their innocence. Those seven years were spent reviewing the whole entire case until they were able to prove with absolute certainty that they......

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