Transcript: Profile: Studies on death penalty suggest capital punishment cases involve many mistakes by all parties involved

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Profile: Studies on death penalty suggest capital punishment cases involve many mistakes by all parties involved

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

BOB EDWARDS, host:

A study released today tries to explain why so many death penalty verdicts are reversed. Two years ago, another study about the death penalty suggested that capital punishment cases are riddled with mistakes. That study covered thousands of death penalty cases between 1973 and 1995. It found that two-thirds of death penalty verdicts were reversed because of errors that were made during the trial phase or at the appeals level. The new study examines the conditions under ...

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