As the authors of the study observed: âDeath sentences represent less than one-tenth of 1% of prison sentences in the United States, but they accounted for about 12% of known exonerations of innocent defendants.â
Uber Technologies Inc. is an American multinational online transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops, markets and operates the Uber mobile app, which allows consumers with smartphones to submit a trip request which is then routed to Uber drivers who use their own cars. As of August 2016, the service was available in over 66 countries and 507 cities worldwide.
Uber and its Chinese rival, Didi Chuxing, are in a new race: to go public. Didi Chuxing, currently the dominant ride-hailing company in China, is reportedly targeting an initial public offering in one of New York's exchanges in 2017, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources.