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Now last section: "Reaching the 200th death row exoneration is truly a bittersweet milestone," said Krone. "Sadly in just 22 years since my exoneration, there have been 100 more exonerations of the innocent from a death sentence. It shows that our system is capable of both prosecuting and convicting the innocent. Encouragingly, though, the milestone can serve to increase public awareness of such injustice. Awareness itself, has in some instances freed those wrongfully convicted. An innocent life has been saved this time, but how many others on death row will not be so fortunate. There have been 200 mistakes. It's time to end the death penalty experiment." The cases of the men and women of Witness to Innocence point to a deeper truth: there are innumerable ways in which a death penalty case can go wrong, and even when the flaws in a capital case are obvious, courts are extremely reluctant to redress them. "We have been to the edge of execution and come out of it," Krone says. "Others have not been so fortunate. If that's not cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is." "The only way to ensure that this country doesn't execute any more innocent people," Krone concludes, "is to end the death penalty once and for all."