Maeve Higgins: 'I have three clients on death row right now, all put there by junk science' 

A new book by a former public defender tells the story of some of the US's wrongful executions, as well as the tawdry ascent and eventual take down of bogus ‘sciences’ like bite marks and blood spatter analysis which have now been thoroughly debunked

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The US runs the world’s largest carceral system. Guilty or not, the state is an expert in locking people up. Plenty of people in prison are innocent of any crime and many have even been executed for crimes they didn’t commit. 

A new book, Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System tells the story of some of these wrongful executions, as well as the tawdry ascent and eventual take down of bogus ‘sciences’ like bite marks and blood spatter analysis, which have now been thoroughly debunked.