Two of those four had also been on death row awaiting execution. Such cases are horrible. It appears we may have proof that 21 innocents have been sent to death row since 1973. That is about 0.3 percent of those sentenced to death and all of those were released. So far, 99.7 percent accuracy, with the errors corrected.
Race is an important factor in determining who is sentenced to die.
The crimes, of course. See Rand Corporation study and Smith College study, read McCleskey v. Kemp. Oh well, I guess you thought that might be of no interest to your readers. The victim was doused with gasoline and set afire after an all-night drinking party at a trailer in rural Grayson County. Authorities found the victim's charred corpse in a pile of debris with his severed, burned head in a freshly dug hole nearby.