What happens if someone is executed on death row and is exonerated one year later?

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asked May 9, 2019 in Law/Ethics by Jensupsexap (330 points)
What happens if someone is executed on death row and is exonerated one year later?

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answered May 9, 2019 by lulumeon (40,870 points)
When someone is wrongly convicted for a crime they didn't commit and then they were executed but then exonerated a year or so later then the person is already dead and there is no undoing that.

So the person who was executed has no option of getting out of it because they're dead because of wrongful execution.

However the family can sue the state and prison for wrongful conviction, incarceration and the wrongful execution and make the state pay them a lot of money.

This is one reason why the death penalty should be abolished because people can and do get wrongfully convicted and executed.

Also why should the state punish murder by them murdering someone.

The person who is on death row is in trouble for murdering someone or some people and yet the prison and state is allowed to murder that person for murdering other people.

it's wrong and should be abolished.

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