Dna Testing

Innocent & Executed: It Could Have Been Me

Franky Carrillo | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Dna Testing, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, California Capital Punishment, California Death Penalty, Carlos Deluna, Carlos Deluna Execution, Crime News
Franky Carrillo

I was wrongfully convicted when I was 16 years old and served 20 years in prison before proving my innocence. That mistake took two decades from me, but it took Carlos DeLuna's life.

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Texas Lawman to High Court: DNA Testing "Frivolous" in Death Penalty Case

David Protess | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Dna Testing, Hank Skinner, Death Penalty, Rick Perry, Hank Skinner Dna Testing, Hank Skinner Death Penalty, Chicago News
David Protess

If the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals grants the motion for DNA testing, a little blood and sweat on a jacket may be the difference between life and death for Hank Skinner. Could anything be less frivolous?

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UConn's Role in Shaping the Future of Medicine

Susan Herbst | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Bioscience, Genetic Disorders, Dna Testing, Bioscience Connecticut, Genetic-Makeup, Genetic Code, University of Connecticut, Uconn, Genetic-Health, New Health Care, Genetics, Health Care, Personalized Medicine, Healthcare, Medical Research, College News
Susan Herbst

"Personalized medicine" is opening the door to a whole new world of medical care -- one that would offer a tailor-made approach to treating and preventing health problems in individual patients.

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DNA Testing Expanded To Fare-Jumpers, Shoplifters

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Dna Testing, Dna, Dna Databases, Video, New-York-Dna-Database-for-All-Criminals, Marijuana, Nyclu, Ny News, New York DNA Database, Dna Databank, New York News, Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York News

New York became the first "all crimes DNA" state in the nation Monday after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill requiring anyone convicted of...

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David Lohr

Human Remains Found In New York Reservoir In 2009 Identified

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Dna Testing, Dna, Salamanca, Traci Douglass, Crime, Crime News, New York, Timothy Whitcomb, Video, Allegheny Reservoir, Missing Persons, Dennis Dirkmaat, New York Reservoir Remains, Crime News

Authorities in upstate New York have identified human skeletal remains that were found in the Allegheny Reservoir in September 2009. According to t...

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David Lohr

Suspicious Spouses Use Soiled Undies To Expose Infidelity

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Infidelity Test, Dna Testing, Dna, Cheating Relationships, Infidelity, Paternity Tests, Video, Kip Charles, Dna Infidelity Testing, Cheating, Paternity Lab Center, Weird News News

Exposing marital infidelity can be a costly and time consuming endeavor. Sure, there is a plethora of high-tech methods out there, but did you know yo...

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Down the Darkest Road Is a Look at Crime in the Early 1990s

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Legal Rights of Victims, 1990's Criminal Procedures, Dna Testing, Criminal Abduction, Tami Hoag, Crime Novels, New Books, Books News
Jackie K. Cooper

Down the Darkest Road is the latest in Tami Hoag's stories about Oak Knoll. It is also her latest book about a world before DNA testing, massive related computer intelligence, and other criminal techniques became common.

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Post-Conviction DNA Testing in Massachusetts

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Dna, Wrongful Convictions, DNA Access Bill, DNA Access Law, Dna Testing, Criminal Justice System, Crime, Wrongful Conviction, Criminal Justice, Massachusetts, Boston Bar Association, Politics News
Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism

Nationwide, DNA tests have helped exonerate 280 innocent men and women. Since the first DNA exoneration 22 years ago in 1989, 49 states have passed laws granting inmates the right to test DNA evidence.

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When Juveniles Confess to Murders They Didn't Commit

David Protess | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Dna Testing, Wrongful Conviction, Chicago News, Central Park Jogger, False Confessions, Anita Alvarez, Ryan Harris, Chicago News
David Protess

False confessions happen all the time. They are particularly common in cases involving juveniles. What is distinctive about the Englewood Four case, and deeply troubling, is that State's Attorney Alvarez will not acknowledge the mistake.

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The Texas D.A.s Who Denied Hank Skinner Justice

David Protess | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Texas, Hank Skinner, Dna Testing, Crime, Nancy Grace, Wrongful Conviction, Chicago News, Death Penalty, Rick Perry, Republicans, Lynn Switzer, Harold Comer, Rick Roach, John Mann, Chicago News
David Protess

Yesterday, the Texas high court agreed to decide whether a new state DNA law applies to Skinner's case -- or if he should be executed without the tests. So how did we get to this point?

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What Texas Isn't Telling You About Hank Skinner's Case

David Protess | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Dna Testing, Hank Skinner, Wrongful Conviction, Chicago News, Death Penalty, Crime, Rick Perry, Hank Skinner Death Penalty, Chicago News
David Protess

Prosecutors swear up and down that they are acting on principle, that Hank Skinner had his chance for DNA testing and blew it, like a guilty man would.

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Time Is Not on Texas Condemned Man's Side

David Protess | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Dna Testing, Hank Skinner, Wrongful Conviction, Chicago News, Death Penalty, Crime, Rick Perry, George W. Bush, Post-Conviction-Dna-Testing, Hank Skinner Death Penalty, Chicago News
David Protess

Governor Perry seems to have his own problems lately. Why add the execution of Hank Skinner, a possibly innocent man, to the list?

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Willful Ignorance In Texas Execution?

Radley Balko | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Texas, Hank Skinner, Dna Testing, Hank Skinner Texas, Death Penalty Debate, Texas Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Rick Perry Death Penalty, Medill Innocence Project, Innocence, Hank Skinner Death Penalty, Politics News
Radley Balko

A week from today, Texas death row inmate Henry "Hank" Skinner is scheduled to be executed for the 1995 murders of Twila Busby and her two adult sons....

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Test the DNA

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Dna Testing, Hank Skinner, Death Penalty, Death Penalty Texas, Hank Skinner Death Penalty, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

Hank Skinner has an execution date set for November 9, 2011. But he has cases pending in federal and state courts to compel the State of Texas to conduct DNA tests on all of the untested evidence in his case.

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When a Child Vanishes in the Night

David Protess | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Elizabeth Smart, Crime, Baby Lisa Irwin, Wrongful Conviction, Chicago News, Jaclyn Dowaliby, Kansas City News, JonBenet Ramsey, Missing Children, Dna Testing, Hank Skinner, Death Penalty, Rick Perry, Chicago News
David Protess

As I've watched the drama unfold surrounding 11-month old Lisa Irwin, who vanished overnight on Oct. 3, my thoughts have turned to an eerily similar case.

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Texas Must Test DNA Before Carrying Out Skinner Execution

Kirk Bloodsworth | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Dna Testing, Post Conviction DNA Testing, Capital Punishment, Hank Skinner, Troy Davis Execution, Kirk Bloodsworth, Death Penalty, Hank Skinner Death Penalty, Troy Davis, Crime News
Kirk Bloodsworth

I do not know if Mr. Skinner is innocent or guilty -- but I do know firsthand the critical importance of DNA testing. Nearly twenty years ago, I became the first person in the U.S. exonerated from death row when post-conviction DNA testing proved my innocence.

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Public Officials Call On Rick Perry To Allow DNA Testing For Questionable Execution

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Texas Death Penalty, Dna Testing, Dna, Rick Perry Texas, Capital Punishment, Republican Candidates, Cameron Todd Willingham, Execution, 2012 Elections, Elections 2012, Rick Perry Death Penalty, Perry Execution, Rick Perry Execution, Rick Perry, Texas Criminal Courts, Texas, Hank Skinner, Video, Henry Skinner, Death Penalty, Texas Execution, Greg Abbott, Dna Evidence, Perry Death Penalty, Politics News

A group of current and former lawmakers, judges and lawyers is calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry to grant DNA testing for a convicted murderer with an ...

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WATCH: New BBC Documentary Explores Spain's Baby-Trafficking Scandal

Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Dna Testing, Spain's Stolen Babies, Spain Stolen Babies, Video, Stolen Babies, Anadir, Bbc Stolen Babies, Spain, Katya Adler, Bbc Documentary, World News

From as early as 1940 to as late as 1990, thousands of mothers in Spain were told just after they had given birth that their newborns had died. Man...

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Texas to Condemned Man: Execution First, DNA Later

David Protess | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Lynn Switzer, Dna Testing, Hank Skinner, Post Conviction DNA Testing, DNA Test, Death Penalty, Hank Skinner Death Penalty, Rick Perry, Troy Davis, Chicago News
David Protess

Hank Skinner is scheduled to die in a month -- while two judges continue to contemplate whether he can test the evidence that might clear him.

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Why Americans Still Support The Death Penalty

Radley Balko | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Dna Testing, Texas, Hank Skinner, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Death Penalty Support, Innocence Project, Troy Davis, Rick Perry, Politics News
Radley Balko

It has long been the conventional wisdom on both sides of the death penalty debate that if a state or the federal government were ever shown to have e...

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The Best Tool to Catch Rapists

Diane Dimond | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Roland Ali Westbrooks, Dna Testing, Codis, Untested DNA Rape Kits, Sexual Violence, Houston Crime, Rape, Rape Kits, Rape Kit, Untested Rape Kits, Houston, Rape Victims, Politics News
Diane Dimond

There are nearly 200,000 DNA rape kits sitting -- ignored and forgotten -- in law enforcement storage areas across this country. Can you think of any other crime where police have definitive evidence and fail to process it?

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Cleared Of Murder After 19 Yrs, Now Charged With Sex Abuse

AP | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Murder, Dna Testing, Wrongfully Imprisoned, Exonerated, Ny News, Frank Sterling, Sex Abuse, Child Sex Abuse, New York News, New York News

GREECE, N.Y. -- A former truck driver who spent nearly 19 years behind bars for a 1988 slaying he didn't commit has appeared in an upstate New York co...

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David Lohr

Human Skull Found Discarded In Backpack

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Texas, Dna Testing, Video, Crime, Human Skull Found, San Antonio, Autopsy, Investigation, Death, Home News

A workman clearing brush along a Texas interstate made a startling discovery Friday, when he found a human skull discarded near the roadside. The f...

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Will Guzzardi

Newly Passed Bill Expands DNA Collection To Those Presumed Innocent

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Illinois Dna Collection, Dna, Dna Testing, Illinois Dna Database, Chicago, Illinois, Dna Evidence, Dna Database, Dna Arrestees, Dna Collection, Chicago News

If Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signs House Bill 3238, recently sent to his desk by the state legislature, it will mark a turning point in the national...

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Exhuming the Leather Man of the Hudson Valley

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Nicholas F. Bellantoni, Dna Testing, Ny, The Leather Man, Dan Deluca, Grave Excavation, Norm Macdonald, New York, Sparta Cemetery, Hudson Valley, Leather Man?S Trail, Archaeologist, Ossining, Ossining Historical Society, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Folklore of the Hudson Valley., Briarcliff, Travel News
Margie Goldsmith

The mysterious hermit who tramped from town to town just after the Civil War was called the Leather Man because he wore a suit of leather sewn together from scraps.

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