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On the recordDecember 7, 2009
So in other words, one has to assume that if X percent of people would have been executed but for DNA evidence where DNA evidence is available, then probably a similar amount of people who are innocent are executed where the DNA evidence is not available.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler discusses the implications of DNA evidence on wrongful executions.

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