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Not Guilty: Students Discover How Science Can Free the Innocent

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A biology-class project teaches high school students about the real-life application of DNA testing in wrongful-conviction cases.
A biology-class project teaches high school students about the real-life application of DNA testing in wrongful-conviction cases.
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For eighteen years, Dennis Williams was imprisoned for crimes he didn't commit. Then, while incarcerated on Illinois's death row in a cell located just steps from the electric chair, DNA tests helped prove his innocence. He was released from prison in 1996.

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A biology-class project teaches high school students about the real-life application of DNA testing in wrongful-conviction cases.
law, double helix, genetics, DNA testing, crime, studying crime, solving crimes, biology
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