Barry White Quotes

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.

It is easier to learn to fly by flapping one's arms than it is to get a district attorney to admit having sent an innocent person to prison.

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this House at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my memory.

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.

There are many innocent people in prison.

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

I had to grow up in prison for something I did not do.

When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it's not about truth and justice or balance. It's about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you're putting the wrong person behind bars.

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

It is better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be condemned.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime.

We’re not here to secure convictions; we are here to secure justice.

We cannot allow the spectacle of constant executions to be swept under the rug. We know that already over 100 individuals who were put on death row have been released. And we should shudder to think how many people have been sent to their deaths that were innocent.

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Using legally approved tricks and lies, the detective coerces a false confession. Hiding facts that support innocence, the prosecutor forces a dubious plea of guilt. The judge sentences for acquitted conduct, as she is allowed to do. The defense attorney for the poor, overworked because of underfunding by the state, fails to summon sufficient resources to investigate and rebut. The legal immigrant is deported with no meaningful access to constitutional rights. These intrusions are woven into the statutes and enabled by courts

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

I don’t think its right to have a criminal justice system that puts innocent people to death.