This is why, absent someone being caught at the scene it's better to have life in prison instead of the death penalty for most first degree murderers. If a wrong was done, as was the case here possibly, then restitution can still be made.
Murder Conviction Overturned after 25 years In an extraordinary decision this morning, a judge threw out murder convictions against two Michigan brothers who have served more than a quarter-century in prison.
Cheers erupted in the Wayne Circuit Court courtroom from friends and relatives of Thomas Highers, now 46, and Raymond Highers, also 46. The brothers, after waiting tensely for about an hour as Judge Lawrence Talon laid out the basis of his decision, leaned over to each other, shook hands and embraced.
The Higherses had long maintained they did not shoot and kill Robert Karey, 65, at his east side Detroit home in June 1987.
Today, Talon ruled that new witnesses who never went to police about the killing offered enough evidence in his court to call into question the 1988 decision by then-Judge Terrance Boyle to convict the brothers and sentence them to life in prison...
