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Are legislators up to the test?

Are legislators up to the test? Monday, March 24, 2008 THE ISSUE: Alabama is one of only a handful of states without a law to help wrongly convicted people get access to DNA testing. Our Legislature should change that. People convicted of crimes before DNA science had been developed ought to have access to testing now if it could prove their innocence. Unfortunately, Alabama does not make it easy for them to do so. It is one of only seven states without a law setting up a process for prisoners to get belated DNA testing of the evidence used to convict them. For several years running, state Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma, has introduced a bill that would establish a legal procedure for inmates to get DNA tests. This year is no exception...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).