- Eyewitnesses can sometimes be unreliable.
- only 25% of cases have biological evidence.
- Kevin Rojas, a high school senior, was wrongly accused of murder because the claims of witnesses were untrue.
- After four years in prison, a mother-daughter team fought for his case and won.
- DNA plays an important role in trials, but they are developing ways to prove people innocent without it.
- Quincy Spruell served 24 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.
- Texas has more executions than any other state.
- A group called Last Resort deals with the innocence of prisoners. They usually do not have DNA to work with.
- A person sentenced to death can potentially wait 25 years before being executed.
- There are 55 innocence projects in the United States.
Questions:
- How much are the claims of eyewitnesses considered in a trial?
- What is more crucial to a trial: eyewitnesses or DNA?
- After an innocent person is released from prison, is the case forgotten or do the search for the rea criminal?
- How could we prevent the sentencing of innocent people? How could be change or system?
- How many people a year are found innocent after being kept in prison?
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