Since 1989, more that 200 prisoners have been exonerated by DNA evidence in the United States

skipos

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Mon Nov-26-07 08:58 PM
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Since 1989, more that 200 prisoners have been exonerated by DNA evidence in the United States

The New York Times interviewed 137 of them about their lives since leaving prison - their jobs and loves, their health care and housing. The findings and dozens of audio interview are at this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/11/25/nyregion/20071125_DNAI_FEATURE.html

My question is, how many on innocent people have been executed because they weren't lucky enough to have DNA evidence?

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Bitwit1234

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Mon Nov-26-07 09:00 PM
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1. There is a site that will give you a free DNA test and they will pay the postage.

Alot of people are using it for genealogy purposes.

www.smgf.org

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Starbucks Anarchist

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Mon Nov-26-07 10:17 PM
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2. Kick.

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Alexander

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Mon Nov-26-07 10:28 PM
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3. My question is, why do we have the death penalty at all?

Seems like life without parole is good enough for the worst offenders.

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