DNA
Dec 13 2010, Alice Ever

Wrongful executions have been happening for hundreds of years, but until the advent of DNA evidence and improved forensics technology, these individuals have remained guilty as charged.

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In this Tuesday, April 21, 2009 photo, Johnnie Lindsey poses for a photograph in Dallas. For nearly 26 years, Lindsey was in prison, a wrongly convicted man waiting for someone on the outside to believe in his innocence. Last year, a DNA test from a rape.