In Unites States, Texas has been known as the number one state for wrongful conviction. In June 26, 2013 a woman named Kimberly McCarthy was drugged from her food. She was the 500th person to be executed after 1982, what a tragedy. Even after she was proven to be innocent, there was no stop to her death. Another innocent was “murdered”. This was a pity way of trying to force a crime on someone, who never committed it. Even though people protested, her death was taken upon action.

Texas leads the nation in wrongful conviction because, our state government is weak. If we want to execute someone we should think about it before reacting. If we don’t want to do that, then basically we are making an illiterate move. Governor Rick Perry was applauded for overseeing many executions, and he stated, “[kill] one of our citizens-you will face the ultimate justice in Texas.” Is that justice death? Even though in California they had the largest death row population of 727 people, no one was executed. Each case was handled with caution, rather than being sensitively taken like it’s done in Texas.

Some important steps that states can take to ensure fair representation in court, is to reexamine their laws. Also if someone is proven innocent they should look at the case one more time and let them go is point less keeping innocent people in jail for many years. Texas has strict policy and I know not everyone is right all the time but, if a same mistake done over and over again then one should no what is being done is wrong.
And in United States the voice of the people is important, and when hundreds of people protest for the innocence of a person, then there must be something that the government is doing wrong convicting them. So, all of this should be overlooked when convicting someone.

When wrongful convictions are reversed, the state should compensate the exonerated individual with many benefits. If someone is innocent and the government lets go of them. They should repay them with all that time that person has lost. Think about the anger raging from that innocent person when they were convicted for a crime, and years later proven innocent. So, the government should give them health benefits, education, housing, and work benefits. All these benefits should be free, for example if a person is held for 20 years think about all the time they have lost, where they could have been in life and where they are now.