Innocent Persons Have Been Sentenced to Death!

The Risk is too Great

Here are some examples in Missouri:

For 17 years Joe Amrine was on Missouris death row. Only after all his appeals were over and he was facing execution did the Missouri Supreme Court rule that there was convincing evidence of actual innocence. He was released. Clarence Dexter was wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death. Nine years later his conviction was overturned. Prosecutors, who had been cited for misrepresenting the evidence, declined to retry him. He was set free.

Days before Richard Clay was set to be executed in January 2011, Gov. Jay Nixon commuted his death sentence to life without the possibility of parole. Advocates are pressing for a full review of his case, as no physical evidence or eyewitnesses link him to the crime.

Eric Clemmons was sentenced to death, but mainly due to his own efforts he was finally able to win a second trial, where he was found not guilty.

Support for the death penalty rests on the belief that only the guilty are ever executed. THIS IS NOT SO. Several people were executed in Missouri despite significant doubt of their guilt persistingincluding Roy Roberts, Larry Griffin and Marlin Gray.

These are only a few of the Missouri cases where mistakes have been discovered in time.

After being forced for years to face the horror of their possible execution, 140 persons on death rows across the country have been exonerated, found to have been wrongfully convicted. For Every Nine Executions Nationally, One Person is Exonerated as Wrongfully Convicted. Vote to Repeal Missouris Death Penalty!
This flier is part of a series prepared by Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. For more information contact MADP at 816-931-4177 or visit our website at www.madpmo.org