The Price of a Life
Ariel Levy writes on wrongfully convicted inmates who have been proved innocent, and asks how the state should decide how much to compensate the exonerated.
Three unmarked cars pulled up. Restivo's first thought was that his girlfriend and their new baby had been murdered. But that wasn't it. They wanted to discuss a teenage girl strangled near a roller rink. He had never met her and had no criminal record—yet he became a suspect for thirty years.