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By cdw

Two great posts from elsewhere: via TChris at Talkleft Six people convicted in 1985 of a Nebraska murder have been exonerated by DNA testing that implicates the man police originally viewed as a suspect. The day after the murder, Bruce Smith had scratches on his face. A blood test by the Oklahoma City crime lab seemed to rule out Smith as a suspect. The lab made a mistake. Recent DNA testing places Smith at the scene of the crime and rules out the six wrongly convicted defendants. via Matt at Change. org (whose RSS feed while add Friday) A panel appointed to study Maryland’s death penalty system by Gov. Martin O’Malley voted last night to recommend abolishing the practice, based on racial disparities in executions, the chance of executing an innocent person and the system’s cost...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).