Kwame Ajamu, Derrick Jamison and Ray Krone were part of a panel discussion on the abolition of the death penalty in Ohio. The men had all been wrongfully convicted of crimes that placed them on death row. They were exonerated after years of imprisonment and came to the UC College of Law as part of the Ohio Innocence Tour. They shared their stories and Local 12 News provided coverage of the tour.
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Studies have consistently found that a system of criminal law in which the death penalty is available as a punishment is far more expensive than a system in which the most severe punishment is life without parole or a long prison term. Now, as the number of murder exonerations mounts across the United States, a previously hidden cost is emerging: the cost of liability for police and prosecutorial misconduct associated with the wrongful use or threatened use of the death penalty.
The innocence movement has shown that, in addition to the increased costs associated with investigation, pretrial detention, prosecution, jury selection, trial and sentencing, appeal, and incarceration in death-penalty cases, wrongful capital prosecutions are costing state and local taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Two factors drive up the costs of wrongful conviction judgments: official misconduct and length and severity of incarceration.