, there were many people wrongfully executed for crimes that they did not commit all in the name of justice. It has happened that after the execution of the alleged guilty party, the real murderer confessed to elevate his guilty conscience. Hugo Bedau states that "no matter how careful courts are, the possibility of perjured testimony, mistaken honest testimony, and human error remain all too real. We have no way of judging how many innocent persons have been executed, but we can be certain there were some..." (Bedau 76). The unique thing about the death penalty is that it is final and irreversible. Since 1970, seventy-seven people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. Researchers Radelet & Bedau found twenty-three cases since 1900 where innocent people were executed, and the numbers are growing
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