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The Tuscaloosa News reports, "Keeping evidence safe," written by Stephanie Taylor.DNA evidence could play a part in determining whether a man sitting on death row lives or dies by lethal injection. If the state can find it. Tommy Arthur was scheduled to be executed on July 31 for the murder-for-hire killing of his girlfriend's husband in 1981. His attorneys contend that DNA evidence would conclusively prove whether Arthur was responsible, but prosecutors claim that it can't be located. Across the nation, 25 states and Washington, D.C., have laws requiring local court clerks to preserve evidence presented at trial. Alabama is not among them. Although the state Supreme Court and law enforcement agencies have policies in place to protect evidence, there is no statutory oversight...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).