Lutz, I want to show you a few links if I may:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/wi/audrey-edmunds.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kirk-noble-bloodsworth/overturned_b_59325.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/michael-blair-texas-rape-compensation_n_2123212.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/28/damon-thibodeaux-death-row_n_1924776.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/john-edward-smith-exonerated_n_1910026.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/lynn-dejac-peters_n_2122595.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...national-anthem-tampa-bay-rays_n_1683772.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/texas-man-imprisoned-for-_0_n_992681.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/26/doug-prade-ohio-prisioner-dna-margo-prade_n_1831151.html
These are only cases where horrible miscarriages of justice were avoided (something you previously said was rare). Quite a few exonerations happen posthumously. Now you read these stories, and think of what MIGHT have happened to these wrongfully convicted people.
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/wi/audrey-edmunds.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kirk-noble-bloodsworth/overturned_b_59325.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/michael-blair-texas-rape-compensation_n_2123212.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/28/damon-thibodeaux-death-row_n_1924776.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/john-edward-smith-exonerated_n_1910026.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/lynn-dejac-peters_n_2122595.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...national-anthem-tampa-bay-rays_n_1683772.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/texas-man-imprisoned-for-_0_n_992681.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/26/doug-prade-ohio-prisioner-dna-margo-prade_n_1831151.html
These are only cases where horrible miscarriages of justice were avoided (something you previously said was rare). Quite a few exonerations happen posthumously. Now you read these stories, and think of what MIGHT have happened to these wrongfully convicted people.