Stories of convicts

In any civilized country in the world there is a procedure of correcting judicial errors and reviewing verdicts, that raise reasonable doubts about their fairness. Ukraine establishes itself as a civilized, democratic country, while according to the statistics of judicial practice, there is less than one percent of acquittals, while in European countries, in the United States, this percentage reaches 20-25 percent. It can be safely said, that 3-4 percent of people, who are sentenced to life imprisonment, serving sentences for other people’s crimes. The qualification of more than 10 percent of crimes is clearly exaggerated and the punishment doesn’t correspond to the gravity of the offence and the actual circumstances of the event. The draft Law №3078, as it was called, the “Bill of Last Hope” has the task of starting the process of restoring justice in the fights for lives of people, who are sentenced to life imprisonment by doubtful verdicts.