Sentence examples similar to erroneously convicted people from inspiring English sources

"They convicted people because the ministry told them to.

"Murderers, dope addicts, people in prison — convicted people — are allowed to see their children.

For some convicted people, the consequences have been significant.

One in 25 criminal defendants who has been handed a death sentence in the United States has likely been erroneously convicted.

According to Dworkin (1981), moral harm arises as an objective moral fact when a person is erroneously convicted of a crime.

The new regulations were issued weeks after the authorities conceded that the confession used to erroneously convict a farmer for a murder was based on torture.

We're talking about convicted felons, people convicted of domestic violence, people with a severe mental illness.

Suborned courts convicted innocent people of imaginary offences.

And it makes no distinction between people convicted of serious crimes and people convicted of minor offenses.

We're convicting innocent people in a race to convict someone for a crime.

Apart from crime decrease the tendency of magistrates to convict young people to a civil instead of a penal measure also caused this vacancy.