Ever wonder why we put innocent people on death row?

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

Sean Reilly of Newhouse News Service supplies another example of how Congress often fails to put its money where its mouth is. Four years ago they enacted what was supposed to be a $482 million program to clear up the backlogs in forensic crime laboratories that were preventing evidence from reaching the judicial system in a timely manner. This is not a trivial matter. We're talking about evidence that can spare the...