As I went to Yahoo! this morning, I found some interesting news. Two men from North Carolina, Kenneth Kagonyera and Robert Wilcoxson, are being freed from prison after some interesting DNA evidence. DNA evidence proved that these two men were not the ones who committed a murder an a home invasion. These two men served a decade in prison for a murder they didn't commit. Kagonyera was coerced into pleading guilty. To hear that these men were proven NOT GUILTY according to sufficient evidence tells me that there is some justice out there.
It also tells me that the justice system can also fail. Two people are doing time for murders they did not commit. Unfortunately, this kind of stuff happens. It is all too common. This is one of the reasons I do not support the death penalty. Stuff like this can happen. You have two people who were serving time for something they did not do. This isn't to say that the home invasion being committed was right. Time should have been served for that. However, DNA has done wonders and getting people exonerated for crimes they did not commit. It shows that sometimes innocent men can go to prison..What if these two men had been executed? It would have been two people going to the death chamber for crimes they didn't commit. This has also been know to happen two. Go look it up sometime on google. Of course, there are some people who feel like "So what if some innocent people get executed, that isn't worth the ones who are still behind bars". I don't feel that way.
http://news.yahoo.com/2-nc-men-walk-free-murder-exoneration-222600983.html
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