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Arthur's fate can be tied to DNA tests

Arthur's fate can be tied to DNA tests Sunday, July 27, 2008 HANS SHERRER http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion/121714657049090.xml&coll=2 We like to think the legal system gets it right when a person is convicted of murder and sentenced to prison or death. However, all human systems are fallible. That is why there are more than 675 documented cases nationally of a person's exoneration after being convicted of murder, and 258 of those people were sentenced to death. (These cases are documented in the Innocents Database, http://forejustice.org/search_idb.htm, and 11 of these are Alabama cases.) Thomas Arthur is on Alabama's Death Row and scheduled to be executed Thursday. However, the circumstances of his 1991 murder conviction and death sentence strongly suggest his case is one in which the system did not get it right...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 28, 2008 (boomark / email).