Criminal justice system, In recent years dozens of

Criminal justice system

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In recent years dozens of convicted murders on death row were freed at the last minute because DNA evidence proved that they had not committed the crime. Does this prove that justice does work in the American criminal justice system, or is it a sign of pathology (disfunction) in the way criminal trials are conducted in the first place?

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