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“You wanted to kill him!” That’s what I told the death penalty advocates among my listening audience in response to the news that yet another of the Innocence Project clients had been released yesterday after 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn’t commit. I’ve long held that the inevitability of executing innocent people makes the death penalty an unacceptable form of ‘justice’, and this story helps illustrate my point. Listen below (5 mins).