Stronger than a Fingerprint The only thing promising about the death penalty is that death is forever. What if the man that was sentence to death never committed the crime he was put to death for? The state of Missouri must look at all the facts when charging suspects with crimes faceable by the death penalty .When a suspect commits a crime there’s should be a punishment for their actions. When all evidence in the case can be turned over though, where is the justice in the crime committed? If the person being committed of the crime isn’t proven to be guilty aren’t courts just killing another random person off the streets? Linking DNA to the crimes committed, can help people from being wrongfully charged and placed on death row.
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Mr. Jobin collects DNA samples and test them with the fact in cases. DNA facts can place a suspect at the scene of the crime. Samples of hair follicles and blood can help determine the suspect where about and place them where the crime was committed. Body Tissue and semen over the years, have given more reasonable doubt to proudly serving justice for the victims and their families involved. For example, Damon Thibodeaux, a former Mississippi deckhand, was sentenced to death in 1997, for the rape and murder of a 14-year old girl, he was only 22. Later the courts proved that he was in fact innocent ten years later when they ran his DNA through the DNA data base. Which means an innocent man’s name was set free ten years later. Why did Damon get 10 years for being an active member of society? The law must tighten the facts only placing people to death when DNA is …show more content…
Capital punishment is the infection of death by an authorized public authority as a punishment of a crime. (Augarde, 343). David Von Drehle, a writer in the Times Magazine shares some conservorsy in the death penalty stating, “New research finds that almost four percent of U.S. capital punishment sentences are wrongful convictions, almost double the number of people set free, meaning around 120 of the roughly 3,000 inmates on death row in America are not guilty”. That is a large about of people to not be guilty. So what the reason for this? DNA can determine who belongs on death row and who
Mr. Jobin collects DNA samples and test them with the fact in cases. DNA facts can place a suspect at the scene of the crime. Samples of hair follicles and blood can help determine the suspect where about and place them where the crime was committed. Body Tissue and semen over the years, have given more reasonable doubt to proudly serving justice for the victims and their families involved. For example, Damon Thibodeaux, a former Mississippi deckhand, was sentenced to death in 1997, for the rape and murder of a 14-year old girl, he was only 22. Later the courts proved that he was in fact innocent ten years later when they ran his DNA through the DNA data base. Which means an innocent man’s name was set free ten years later. Why did Damon get 10 years for being an active member of society? The law must tighten the facts only placing people to death when DNA is …show more content…
Capital punishment is the infection of death by an authorized public authority as a punishment of a crime. (Augarde, 343). David Von Drehle, a writer in the Times Magazine shares some conservorsy in the death penalty stating, “New research finds that almost four percent of U.S. capital punishment sentences are wrongful convictions, almost double the number of people set free, meaning around 120 of the roughly 3,000 inmates on death row in America are not guilty”. That is a large about of people to not be guilty. So what the reason for this? DNA can determine who belongs on death row and who