Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Lamm's grandfather was Rabbi Yeshoshua Baumol (1880–1948) who authored the Responsa - Emek Halakha. It is this kind of position which honest men particularly honest believers in God and Torah must adopt at all times and especially in our times.

He holds a Ph. Norman (Nachum) Lamm (born December 19 1927 in Brooklyn New York United States) is a major American Modern Orthodox rabbi scholar author and Jewish communal leader. He is the Chancellor of Yeshiva University.