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Old 12-15-2004, 09:48 AM
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no one has uncovered an instance of anyone put to death who was innocent.
But there have been plenty of cases of people on death row who were later found innocent because of DNA testing. So much so that George Ryan the Governor of Illinois - a former staunch supporter of the practice - put a moratorium on it. Obviously for someone, who supported the death penalty before, to do a 180 it would take a crisis.
Those were suspicions. I can't remember the details of that, but I don't think anyone was actually found innocent. But in any event, that would just show how valuable DNA evidence can be in determining the death penalty.
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