There can be no denying that the criminal justice system makes mistakes. Seventeen people sentenced to die in the United States have been exonerated by DNA evidence, after serving a combined 209 years in prison, according to the Innocence Project. Hundreds more subject to non-capital sentences have also been freed as a result of DNA testing. For many convicts proclaiming innocence, there isn’t and will never be DNA evidence to provide certainty.
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