Exonerated Death Row Inmate says More are Innocent
April 19th, 2012 by Mike Vasilinda
At 23, Florida leads the nation in the number of innocent people sentenced to death and later released. In 1978, David Keaton became the first person released for a murder he did not commit. Keaton has been touring the country speaking to anyone will listen. His message: You too could go to death row for a crime you didn’t commit. Keaton says there are still more innocent people on death row.
“There have been many innocent people convicted and been sentenced to death, and they have died for something they didn’t do” says Keaton, who was just eighteen when he was arrested.
Keaton said until he was convicted, he believed in the justice system, but now argues that eyewitness accounts are often wrong and that police will sometimes look for an easy arrest when they have no other leads.
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