DNA Testing in Exoneration
According to The Innocence Project, 329 innocent people have been exonerated through DNA testing in the United States since 1989 (Innocenceproject.org). Most of those people were victims of wrongful convictions, which were made by eyewitness misidentifications or misconducting investigation procedures. Those wrongly accused people were imprisoned many years for the crimes that they did not commit. In addition, they encountered many issues and could be killed for any reasons during their time in prison. Since DNA testing was used as a primary tool in the investigation process, many people have been exonerated. However, there were some cases that the victims had died before they had a chance to be exonerated. The criminal justice system cannot compensate wrongly convicted people for their time in prison because they would have had numerous opportunities to pursue their dreams if those people had not been in prison. However, exonerating those innocent people is what the justice system has to do to correct mistakes in convicting them. With advantages in DNA testing nowadays, wrongly accused people have more chances to be exonerated because DNA testing is the most reliable evidence can prove them not guilty.…show more content… Identifying the real person who committed crime or proving the wrongful convicted person’s innocence through a DNA testing is a necessary procedure for an exoneration. DNA testing is the scientific examination based on DNA samples of the perpetrator collected from the crime scene. The result of DNA testing becomes a biological evidence that makes the perpetrator admit his crime because it points out what he did at the crime scene. Besides, that result also proves a suspect guilty or not in the investigating process. DNA testing is not easily impacted by other factors like eyewitness, so it can be considered as the most reliable evidence in the investigation