[Matt Ruff]

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I think if you ask the vast majority of freed wrongly convicted people what they'd prefer they'd take losing some number of years of their life to losing all of the rest of their life.

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If you're sentenced to life without parole, you *do* lose all the rest of your life.

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I agree in cases where the conviction is never overturned. The point is though that convictions are overturned and wrongly convicted people are proven innocent.

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They are, but my impression is that this a fairly rare occurrence -- and being on death row actually may improve your chances of having your conviction overturned, because pro bono lawyers and other good Samaritans are more likely to want to help a condemned man.