Its aim is to allow the execution of Death Row inmates within five years of sentencing. The new law appears likely to prompt a major showdown between the Florida Supreme Court viewed by Bush and Republican legislators as too liberal and the Bush administration. The state Supreme Court has slapped a six-month moratorium on putting the new law into effect, a move designed to allow time to determine its constitutionality. Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongfully Convicted is a literary work that catalogues the injustices of the death penalty. Actual Innocence reveals the gaping holes in the justice system where the innocent are saved only by modern science, luck and determined advocacy.
Snitches tell lies.
Confessions are coerced or fabricated. Racism trumps the truth. Lab tests are rigged. Defense lawyers sleep. It is authored jointly by Jim Dwyer, Peter Neufield , and Barry Scheck .