How Is Our Justice System Broken

Criminal Injustice
Main question: Is our justice system broken?
Essay for Yes, our justice system is broken: Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do? There are people all over America that have been accused of stealing, killing, or other crimes that they did not commit, and they were severely punished for it. People like Claude Jones, Carlos De Luna, and Leo Jones, were all falsely accused and punished for a crime someone else committed. Some were put away or executed because there was false evidence provided. In July, a police officer in New York choked an unarmed black man, Eric Garner, to death. A bystander caught it on video. Despite the video, and the prohibition of exactly what the officer did, a grand jury declined
In November 1989, Jones and another man were seen pulling into the parking lot of a liquor store in Texas. One man stayed in the car while the other went inside and shot the owner. Eye witnesses couldn’t see who entered the store, but Jones said he never entered the store. But since two other people were linked to the murder, they both said it was Jones who shot the liquor store owner, and they were spared the death penalty. The deciding factor was a strand of hair found at the crime scene, forensics said the hair seemed to have come from Jones and he was sentenced to death. The forensics technology was underdeveloped in the 1990s, when the hair was tested. So they weren't able to match the hair to Jones. But before Jones' execution, his attorneys wanted to re-test the hair that was supposedly Jones'. The court denied them, and Jones was killed. In an attempt to prove that Texas executed an innocent man, a magazine company filed a lawsuit in 2007 to get ahold of the strand of hair and submitted it for DNA testing, which was determined to be the hair of the victim (the liquor store owner). Just imagine how upset his family would be when they learned that he was falsely executed, I know I would be heartbroken and
I read thesilentvoicesofmississippi.blogsopt.com, and found the last man who I'm going to mention, Leo Jones. He was executed in 1998 for murdering a police officer in Florida. Although Jones confessed 12 hours after the murder, he was forced to say he did it during hours of intimidating police interrogations, where they threatened his life and made him play Russian roulette. One witness believed that the police department was out to get Jones because he had assaulted an officer in the past. The same two arresting officers were released from the department shortly after for using violence in other cases. Despite repeated appeals, other potential suspects and witness testimonies in support of Jones’ exoneration, the sentencing stood as is. Jones was also denied another method of execution and was killed by the electric chair. That poor man, was punished with a lack of evidence, then was executed by the electric