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Lawyers for Alabama Death Row inmate Thomas Arthur will get to make their case early next year for DNA testing

Lawyers for Alabama Death Row inmate Thomas Arthur will get to make their case early next year for DNA testing Wednesday, October 22, 2008 THE ISSUE: Lawyers for Death Row inmate Thomas Arthur will get to make their case early next year for DNA testing. Death Row inmate Thomas Arthur will get another day in court - one that should take place but, at the same time, shouldn't be necessary. Those who are in line to be executed by the state of Alabama shouldn't have to fight so hard to get DNA tests on biological evidence collected before modern scientific methods transformed law enforcement. State prosecutors and the governor should be willing to use all available means to make sure an innocent person is not put to death, and they shouldn't need a court to tell them that's the right thing or force them to do it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on October 24, 2008 (boomark / email).