A review by allibroad
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington

4.0

This book reminds me of Judge Jed Rakoff's remarkable, if short-lived decision in US v. Quinones (2002). He held that capital punishment is unconstitutional because it "not only deprives innocent people of a significant opportunity to prove their innocence, and thereby violates procedural due process, but also creates an undue risk of executing innocent people, and thereby violates substantive due process." How is a victim of a miscarriage of justice supposed to prove that he was convicted on the basis of junk science if the science isn't there yet? And if he's already been executed before by the time it is?