Speaking from what my dad has told me about the 80+ death penalty trials where he defended black people in south africa .... there were at least 10 that were definitely innocent and about another 15 who did things due to extenuating circumstances... like killing someone who was in the process of killing their brother.... and a guy who killed someone who raped their sister etc. So of the cases he ran 25% probably deserved either freedom or just some jail, not death. Yet the 3 definitely innocent ones who were executed cant be brought back now. Thats the problem with death, when they find out you are innocent later, your dead. He is totally against the death penalty. He got roughly 80% of his clients off and the others simply stopped writing.

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