6/2/18: No president has ever talked more about the need to be “tough on crime” than President Trump. (Members of his administration excepted.)
Did you know, however, that last year new DNA tests, and other kinds of evidence, applied to old criminal cases led to exonerations for 139 convicted “criminals?”
Those men and women who weren’t actually criminals had served a total of 1,478 years behind bars (10.6 years on average) for crimes we now know they did not commit. Ledura Watkins, freed last year, had been accused of killing a teacher and convicted based on hair found at the scene.
After “only” 41 years, DNA proves the hair was not his.
BLOGGER’S NOTE (6/5/22): For more information
about wrongfully-convicted individuals, freed by DNA
evidence, consult the website for the Innocence Project. This is just one of
several groups working to rectify wrongs carried out by the justice system. A
number of these people were already sitting on death row.)
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Mr. Watkins spent 41 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. |
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