As Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney seeks to reinstate capital punishment with a “foolproof” system(see earlier What’s New item), a news investigation has revealed that 22 state men have served lengthy prison terms over the last two decades for rapes and murders that they did not commit. Most of the wrongly convicted inmates were black. Experts say that Boston’s Suffolk County prosecutors have wrongly convicted the second highest number of innocent people in the nation, falling closely behind error-plagued Chicago. In recent years, the Boston Police Department and District Attorney’s Office have come under heavy criticism for conducting overly narrow investigations, aggressive interrogations, using unreliable eyewitness testimony, and botched DNA and ballistic investigations. Ulysses Rodriguez Charles, who served nearly 20 years in jail before new DNA tests led to his exoneration, stated, “I look at it like it was a death. I was just existing. I was just breathing. My life had ceased…This goes on all the time. It’s happening now as we speak. It’s just unfortunate it happened to me.” (Boston Herald, May 5, 2004) See Innocence.