Sentence examples for innocent convict from inspiring English sources

There is no reason, if DNA evidence can exonerate an innocent convict, that the simple test ought not be given.

Kentucky's laws and procedures, the report said, failed to "protect the innocent, convict the guilty and ensure the fair and efficient enforcement of criminal law in death penalty cases".

But with the database, the crime-scene DNA would typically do more than generate a negative match with the innocent convict; it would also generate a positive match identifying a specific person whose DNA profile fits that found at the crime scene.

Once this person is known, it will be easier for innocent convicts to exonerate themselves.

A universal DNA database would also be a godsend to innocent convicts.

"Trials will take longer, there will be more appeals and more cases in which the wrong results are reached: the innocent convicted and the guilty freed.

"This is a beautiful day," said Mr. Carter, who has been involved in the cause of freeing innocent convicts since his release in the mid-1980s.

In The Heart Goes Last 20155), privatised prisons are self-contained economies, thriving on the slave labour of innocent convicts (ironically, what's wrong with the book is that its economics don't add up).

And although some Dookhan defendants were guilty of their offenses, others were innocent, convicted of crimes that did not occur.

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"The objective measure of truth and deception that Cephos offers," it said, "will help protect the innocent and convict the guilty".