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Bedau and Radelet, as described Thistlethwaite and Wooldredge (2010) spent several years categorizing instances of capital defendants convicted on the basis of mistakes gross physical facts. Bedau and Radelet conservatively concluded by the end of their study, from 1900 to 1985, three innocent people per every two years have been executed in capital cases. Specifically, one person is convicted per year, per in capital crime – African-Americans were widely over-represented in the study. The authors also recognize the American criminal justice system is not designed to correct errors once they are discovered. Exonerating convicted defendants is a relatively small number and can take years to identify and