The USA has various "Innocence Acts", primarily because those convicted do not have access to a body such as the CCRC that will investigate the case of anyone who claims to be a victim of a miscarriage of justice.
The violent innocence of Act I flips, in Act II, to innocent violence, and Timon's roaring, nearly insane rage against society and the rich is probably the longest sustained temper tantrum in theatrical history.
He co-sponsored "Innocence Protection Act of 2001" (H.R. 912, S.486) to "reduce the risk that innocent persons may be executed [by examining DNA evidence more thoroughly]" and the "National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2001 H.R.103838, S.233) to limit capital punishment until the National Commission on the Death Penalty reviewed the "fairness of the imposition of the death penalty".
In Washington, the Innocence Protection Act languishes in committee despite the support of more than half the House members.
The overdue Innocence Protection Act and its Senate counterpart tacitly acknowledge that the criminal justice system is fallible.
In 2004, over the vigorous objection of the Bush Justice Department, Congress passed the Innocence Protection Act, intended to ensure that inmates challenging their convictions had access to DNA testing.
And the importance of the Innocence Protection Act is destined to grow as more sophisticated DNA testing becomes available to help solve a broader array of crimes.
"The people are ahead of the politicians," said Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a sponsor of the Innocence Protection Act.
The bipartisan Innocence Protection Act would establish national standards for the representation of capital defendants and provide resources to meet them.
This promising measure, the Innocence Protection Act of 2000, stops short of abolishing the death penalty, the course we hope the nation will eventually follow.
