Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts

Friday, August 3, 2007

Another reason not to live in Mississippi

Yesterday, the net discovered an article in Reason Online about a quack doctor
in Mississippi using fabricated bite mark evidence to convict people of crimes. Capital crimes. The article itself is scary, including hints that Mississippi remains without a medical examiner in part because of this guy's popularity with the police. But to underline just how scary Mississippi is, I need to point out that ABC highlighted him in 1997 on a 20/20 episode titled "Junk Science" yet his testimony is still used to send people to death row.


http://reason.com/news/show/121671.html