On Trial for their Lives: The Hidden Costs of Wrongful Prosecutions, a new report from the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, finds that the death penalty in North Carolina is being used broadly and indiscriminately, with little regard for the strength of the evidence against defendants — and putting innocent people at risk of being sentenced to die. It is the first study in the United States of cases in which people were charged or prosecuted capitally but never convicted. Its findings shed new light on how innocent people get caught up in the death penalty system.