Jones was convicted in 1989 before DNA tests were available, but when they were made available in 2000, the request for a DNA test was ignore, and Jones was executed. In 2007, the Innocence Project filed a law suit requesting for the hair so that it could undergo DNA testing. ... In the Old Testament, God's rules did in fact say that certain sins were punishable by death. ...
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." " This may be the earliest indication of the death penalty in the Bible and these verses are giving circumstances where the death penalty would have been required for the people who lived during this crucial time of the Old Testament as they lived under the law. ... By a wide margin, the American public believes that the most significant development in the death penalty in recent years has been the advent of DNA testing and the proof that many who were sentenced to death were innocent. ...
