The US has seen the 200th individual on death row exonerated since 1973.
The exoneration earlier this week has led to further calls from a Catholic organisation that advocates against the death penalty for an end to the “broken system of capital punishment” to ensure innocent people aren’t executed in the future.
“Because of the tireless efforts of faithful advocates and committed lawyers, 200 people have now been saved from the threat of execution after being sentenced to death,” Krisanne Valliancourt Murphy, the executive director of Catholic Mobilising Network, said in a 3 July statement.
