This first piece is a really wonderfully written and researched accounting of the facts behind Cameron Willingham's case (a man executed who was very likely innocent).
This one is essentially a comment on the first.
Thirdly here is an entirely different case. Though it involves the death penalty, it has very little else in common besides some apparent inappropriate legal conduct.
Next, a truly mind-boggling case in which an office closing led to a stay of execution not being filed and, subsequently, to the prisoners execution that night.
Lastly, Innocence Project home page
That's quite a lot of material (whoops). As I mentioned to Joel earlier, the right not to be executed: for something that it is likely you did not do, based on an improper conviction, or because an office closed, seems like one of the more basic human rights.
Hopefully Fi or someone else will post something relatively light-hearted soon.
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