Alyrium Denryle wrote:The Texas Court of Appeals stayed the execution of Hank Skinner, pending a hearing on the admissibility of potentially exculpatory DNA evidence that the DA's office has been intentionally withholding, and has done since the trial. Yeah. You heard that right. They have had DNA samples for ten years, and never ran them during the original trial.
The fuck? Do they not want the DNA to make them look bad or something, or do they just think that some dude's life isn't worth the cost of a DNA test?
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Alyrium Denryle wrote: Yeah. You heard that right. They have had DNA samples for ten years, and never ran them during the original trial.
The fuck? Do they not want the DNA to make them look bad or something, or do they just think that some dude's life isn't worth the cost of a DNA test?
That's Texas —where they won't let facts or truth or innocence get in the way of a good execution.
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Alyrium Denryle wrote: Yeah. You heard that right. They have had DNA samples for ten years, and never ran them during the original trial.
The fuck? Do they not want the DNA to make them look bad or something, or do they just think that some dude's life isn't worth the cost of a DNA test?
Probably both. Because obviously the execution of an innocent man is a lesser evil than some District Asshole looking bad, which cannot be allowed under any circumstances.
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Do DNA samples have a practical shelf-life past which you can no longer test them effectively? It surprises me that we can do tests ten or twenty years after the fact and still get meaningful results, though I suppose we may be doing it on stuff that's been in a deep-freeze all that time or something.
Simon_Jester wrote:Do DNA samples have a practical shelf-life past which you can no longer test them effectively? It surprises me that we can do tests ten or twenty years after the fact and still get meaningful results, though I suppose we may be doing it on stuff that's been in a deep-freeze all that time or something.
Yeah. A -80 C freezer is a wonderful thing.
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