“If by an error of justice an innocent person is put to death, the mistake can never be corrected; all compensation, all reparation for the wrong is impossible.”(Blacks, 1999). One cause of the death of innocents is because of the false information given by witnesses. Timothy Hennis, for example, a US Army Sergeant who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1986 because the wrong information given by one witness which had mistaken Hennis for someone who looked like him. Since 1973, over 130 people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence (House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil & Constitutional Rights, 1993).