Editorial Board at New York Times
1. The Editorial Board at New York Times believes that people wrongly convicted for a crime should not be only given money. The article talks about New York’s compensation law, in which a judge determines the amount of money someone wrongly convicted should be paid as compensation. The board believes that a monetary value shouldn’t be the only repayment given but also something to help them readjust to the outside world.
2. A significant piece of evidence he used were the murders supposedly committed by Robert Hill, Alvena Jennette and Darryl Austin. The detective was Louis Scarcella. The three men were deemed innocent after evidence of an unreliable witness used by Scarcella surfaced, however they had been in prison for a combined total of 60 years. The board believes that these people, instead of solely receiving money should have been give more ways around the “obstacles to rebuilding their lives.”
3. My personal opinion is the same as the board’s. I do believe that prison can really ruin someone’s life, would a manager rather hire someone who was supposedly convicted for murder and sent to prison for 20 years because of it or someone who has a cleaner slate? These people need better opportunities to live the lives they deserve to live, and money just isn’t enough to give them those opportunities.
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