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Why not test DNA to corroborate capital innocence claim?

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After more than 30 Texas exonerations based on DNA evidence in recent years, I can't understand how Grayson County prosecutors could even consider opposing DNA testing of old evidence before they put a defendant to death this summer who's claiming actual innocence.Reacting to recent media reports, a witness has come forward who says death-row inmate Lester Bower's long-time innocence claims are true, and that her ex-boyfriend and three other men committed the quadruple murder of which he was convicted. This news arrives just weeks before Bower's scheduled execution on July 22. But inexplicably, the Grayson County DA opposes DNA testing that might corroborate this new testimony, preferring instead to push forward with the execution. Reports the Fort Worth Star Telegram ("Witness says condemned Arlington man not responsible for 1983 slayings," June 29):Bower?s lawyers say they have identified the four men whom Pearl alleges to be the killers, have documented their long criminal records and have confirmed other key parts of her story...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).