The problem of race in wrongful conviction and exoneration. the exemptions. There were three reasons why the authors chose this topic for research. The first reason is that previous field research shows racial bias in the criminal justice system. This article examines how this influences wrongful conviction and subsequent exoneration. The second reason is because if there is an innocent person in prison it means that the real culprit is still out there, and is most likely committing other crimes. The third reason is the racial composition of the dyad, victim and executioner. This article is the first to mention the dyad, and the authors focus on this in their discussion of wrongful conviction. This article takes a very in-depth look at the problem of racial bias in the system leading to wrongful convictions and how this leads to exonerations. It effectively explains the causes of wrongful convictions and how race impacts those causes, especially how the dyad is built into it. Summary The first section of the article is about people already lucky enough to be exonerated. This article uses the 250 exemptions obtained by January 1, 2010 (as of November 19, 2013 there were 311). In this article we mainly talk about men since 90% of those exempted are men. Similar to the percentage of total men compared to women, approximately 75% of exonerees are minorities. The most common way exonerees gained freedom was through DNA testing. Unfortunately not everyone has that path to pursue to prove… the core part of the article… as opposed to the research, data and conclusions, so it complicated the overall understanding of the article. Most of the outcomes are predictable, at least to someone working in the justice field. The fact that most murders and rapes are intraracial is not something the general public always understands, but most people in the justice field understand it. After reading this article I decided to look up the authors to see if there could be such hidden prejudices. Earl Smith is an African American man and Angela Hattery is a white woman. After learning this, I still didn't believe there was any bias in the article. The only part that could have been skewed in the emphasis was the fact that rape and murder are intraracial crimes, but that was clearly represented in the data, so there didn't seem to be any bias in the conclusions. Discussion

Topic > The problem of race in wrongful conviction and exoneration. the exemptions. There were three reasons why the authors chose this topic for research. The first reason is that previous field research shows racial bias in the criminal justice system. This article examines how this influences wrongful conviction and subsequent exoneration. The second reason is because if there is an innocent person in prison it means that the real culprit is still out there, and is most likely committing other crimes. The third reason is the racial composition of the dyad, victim and executioner. This article is the first to mention the dyad, and the authors focus on this in their discussion of wrongful conviction. This article takes a very in-depth look at the problem of racial bias in the system leading to wrongful convictions and how this leads to exonerations. It effectively explains the causes of wrongful convictions and how race impacts those causes, especially how the dyad is built into it. Summary The first section of the article is about people already lucky enough to be exonerated. This article uses the 250 exemptions obtained by January 1, 2010 (as of November 19, 2013 there were 311). In this article we mainly talk about men since 90% of those exempted are men. Similar to the percentage of total men compared to women, approximately 75% of exonerees are minorities. The most common way exonerees gained freedom was through DNA testing. Unfortunately not everyone has that path to pursue to prove… the core part of the article… as opposed to the research, data and conclusions, so it complicated the overall understanding of the article. Most of the outcomes are predictable, at least to someone working in the justice field. The fact that most murders and rapes are intraracial is not something the general public always understands, but most people in the justice field understand it. After reading this article I decided to look up the authors to see if there could be such hidden prejudices. Earl Smith is an African American man and Angela Hattery is a white woman. After learning this, I still didn't believe there was any bias in the article. The only part that could have been skewed in the emphasis was the fact that rape and murder are intraracial crimes, but that was clearly represented in the data, so there didn't seem to be any bias in the conclusions. Discussion