From what you have learned about the judicial system, why are the states allowed to have differences in laws when it comes to:

Compensating the wrongfully convicted or not compensating the wrongfully convicted

Compensation amounts for the wrongfully convicted

Hello,

According to what I have read, this has been happening because every United States state is also a sovereign and independent entity in its own right and is granted the power to create and apply laws, and regulate them according to their needs. In addition, some laws, such as certain voting laws and criminal laws and statutes, tend to be somewhat uniform across states; nevertheless, some areas of law can be very, very different from one state to the next.