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This 3 page paper analyzes Gregg Easterbrook's article about DNA fingerprinting entitled "The Myth of Fingerprints." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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writes that the fact DNA fingerprints can identify criminals with certainty means the anti-death penalty advocates will lose their most powerful weapon: the fact that innocent people have undoubtedly
been put to death. However, the new technology is not really the main point of the article; he doesnt get to his primary thesis until half-way though the piece
when he writes "it is vital that DNA testing be used to exonerate the innocent" (Easterbrook, 2000, p. 634). That is, he is not as interested in seeing the
arrest numbers climb as he is in getting innocent people out of jail. In the final sentence of the article, he reveals where he stands on the death penalty
issue; he says that without having the "innocent are put to death" argument available, opponents of capital punishment "will be forced back to their real argument, the one that technology
cant undermine: the inherent wickedness of execution itself" (Easterbrook, 2000, p. 635). But he doesnt suggest how they might be able to do this. Does he make his
point forcefully? That is, is the reader convinced that DNA fingerprinting should be used to exonerate the innocent? Logic suggests that thinking people everywhere would insist on this
testing since its available and relatively inexpensive-why would we not want to make sure that the people who are in prison actually belong there? (But that is actually not
one of Easterbrooks conclusions, merely an observation.) Easterbrook provides a convincing argument for using DNA testing to exonerate innocent people wrongly imprisoned. Easterbrooks first paragraph contains the
statistic that 68 inmates tested using DNA fingerprinting were innocent of the crimes for which they were imprisoned. This is far more impressive than if no one had been
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