Supreme Court denies post-conviction DNA testing
By Weekly Staff
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that inmates, including those on death row, do not have a constitutional right to conduct DNA tests that might exonerate them.
DNA testing has exonerated 240 inmates across the country, and in almost half of those cases it identified the real perpetrator. Nonetheless, Alabama remains one of four states without provisions in place for post-conviction testing, and no, Mississippi isn’t one of the other three. Source: The New York Times .
