A Tragedy Of Errors
January, 2005
When William Jackson Marion was executed for murder in 1887, his guilt seemed beyond question, having been resolved by a jury and affirmed by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Yet Marion was innocent. Four years after his execution, his presumed victim turned up alive and well in Kansas.Surely Marion is not the only innocent among the 15,000 people executed in the colonies and the U.S. since the founding of Jamestown. The issue in the current debate is whether any have died unjustly since 1977, when G...
