Convicting the Innocent

Miscarriages of justice-whether caused by errors, coerced confessions, mistaken identity, frame-ups, or, more frequently, denials of due process-challenge students of criminal justice administration and proponents of legal reform to provide reme dies. In many cases men whose innocence was substantiated or whose guilt was at least questionable have been either sentenced to death or actually executed. The irrevocability of an executed death sentence argues for the abolition of capital punishment.