Barry Scheck Innocent Quotations

The whole system has broken down. It's time to find out whether Texas has executed an innocent man.

There's two cases here. Willis can't be actually innocent and Willingham couldn't be executed based on the same scientific evidence.

There's something wrong with the system. It's time to find out whether Texas executed an innocent man.

I think we now have scientific proof that an innocent person was executed and we have a government agency that is obligated to say so.

In so many instances, doing this DNA testing not only exonerates an innocent person but also helps identify the person who really committed the crime before that person goes out and commits more.

This should be a landmark case in the history of eyewitness reform. There are reforms police and prosecutors are using across the country that reduce error, protect the innocent and help apprehend the guilty.