💬 Opinion 2d ago · Jacob Sullum

In 39 States, People Can Be Sentenced to Life for Murders They Did Not Commit

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In 39 States, People Can Be Sentenced to Life for Murders They Did Not Commit
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When he was 19, Jamie Meade participated in a robbery that turned lethal. But it was Meade's partner in crime who actually shot the victim (accidentally, he said). Meade nevertheless was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to life without parole, while the killer pleaded guilty to lesser offenses and received a 12-year sentence. When Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer commuted Meade's sentence last year, he had served 31 years. By contrast, the man who fired the gun, who spent 10 years in priso

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