I would be frightened to discover how many innocent people have been convicted of violent crimes due to either bad eyewitness identification or else false alibis provided for other, actually guilty, suspects, such as when friends or domestic partners or spouses lie for their guilty partners.

I am glad that he is exonerated and free, but this is nowhere near justice.

The wonderful US "justice" system. It needs to be torn down and rebuilt. Here in Louisiana, we have about 1500 people serving life without parole, having been convicted by a non unanimous jury under a law put in place during reconstruction to lessen the impact of black jurors on convictions. I don't know how you justify saying one is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt when at least one juror has doubt. SCOTUS has since ruled it unconstitutional, but failed to make that ruling retroactive in a follow up case. All of those convictions should be set aside, but the state is fighting doing that. And, if course, most of them are black. Black folks make up 33% the total population of Louisiana, but 76% of the prison population.

A case like this is why the UK abolished the death penalty. A fellow was hung for murdering his wife, turned out she'd been killed by a serial killer living in the flat below. And police had missed things like a fencepost propped up with a human femur in his garden.

I hope he makes them bleed money for all his suffering.

And still, in some places, people convicted of crimes aren't allowed to have their cases overturned, like this one, even if and when new and exculpatory evidence is found.

This is the best reason for ridding ourselves of the death penalty, all it takes is a little empathy and the humility to admit you can be wrong even if fully convinced. Unfortunately the law and order Conservatives have NO empathy or humility, so I don't make this argument, it's like talking about your barbecue recipes with a vegan, they'll have little interest, so I argue price because it's also cheaper to keep a person in jail for life than to execute them. Conservatives are all about the money most of the time, but they're hard to convince because they're also there for the cruelty, they really love the cruelty.