This is a shocking example of how inadequate legal representation sends poor people to death row, where some are no doubt wrongly executed.

"Or perhaps if someone were wrongly executed?"

Karloff plays a wrongly executed man who is restored to life by a scientist (Edmund Gwenn).

He came to believe that one prisoner, Carlos DeLuna, was wrongly executed.

He did not offer any reason to believe that Mr. Johnson was wrongly executed but said he simply wanted to more thoroughly examine the case.

"By refusing to address that question," he said, "the Court needlessly abdicates its grave responsibility to ensure that no person is wrongly executed."

The shrine pays tribute to a woman wrongly executed for adultery more than 200 years ago.

Why did he not admit that Bukharin had been wrongly executed for treason?

Wrongly executed people nevertheless occasionally receive posthumous pardons-which essentially void the conviction-or have their convictions quashed.