Sentence examples for flawed convictions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ryan halted executions two years ago after 13 death row inmates were freed because of flawed convictions.

We should reform our state courts so that they are not a rubber stamp of sometimes deeply flawed convictions, and we should reform parole so that prisoners who atone and seek to reform themselves in prison face a realistic chance of going home.

A committee of Middlesex County prosecutors that examines potentially flawed convictions took on O'Loughlin's cause as its first case.

Human Rights Watch protested the alleged torture of the medics, condemned what it called the "fundamental unfairness" of the trials, and urged the appeals court to overturn the "flawed convictions".

Sixteen years since that flawed conviction, Abdellatif has never had his day in court to answer any allegations against him.

The attorneys further asserted that "with each passing day that Mac is denied his freedom, the number of eyes looking upon this flawed conviction increases and... not without good reason". .

But when authorities also uncovered a historical – and flawed – Egyptian conviction against Abdellatif, his case is suddenly transformed into a political lightning rod for national security, with the Abbott-led Coalition, then in opposition, using the case to lambast the Gillard government's handling of border security.

The litigation included people who suffered discrimination when their applications for more than one million temporary jobs for the 2010 census were screened out -- in violation of Title VII, the federal law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace -- by the bureau's use of a flawed FBI arrest and convictions database.

60 MINUTES 7 P.M. (2) An investigation into the flawed science used in the convictions of thousands of defendants, scores of whom may be innocent; Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured in a firefight with suspected al-Qaeda members and accused of killing an American soldier.

Human rights advocates have described the entire legal process as flawed and say the second conviction is a blatant violation of Chinese law.

Both her original trial and her first appeal in the Lahore high court in 2014, which upheld her conviction, were hopelessly flawed, he said.