Post by thinkinkmesa on Jun 20, 2017 23:21:56 GMT -5
Petro: DNA testing vital to obtaining just convictions
Jim Petro served as Ohio Attorney General from 2003 to 2007.
As a state legislator, I served on the House committee that drafted Ohio’s current death penalty law. Later, as Ohio Attorney General, I monitored 18 executions. I believed that the criminal justice system does not make mistakes, especially in murder cases. However, with nearly 800 wrongful murder convictions identified in the U.S. since 1989, I now know that we must do much more to protect innocent people from wrongful conviction – and even wrongful execution.
More;
www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/06/19/petro-dna-testing-vital-obtaining-just-convictions/408458001/
Jim Petro served as Ohio Attorney General from 2003 to 2007.
As a state legislator, I served on the House committee that drafted Ohio’s current death penalty law. Later, as Ohio Attorney General, I monitored 18 executions. I believed that the criminal justice system does not make mistakes, especially in murder cases. However, with nearly 800 wrongful murder convictions identified in the U.S. since 1989, I now know that we must do much more to protect innocent people from wrongful conviction – and even wrongful execution.
More;
www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/06/19/petro-dna-testing-vital-obtaining-just-convictions/408458001/