Exoneration

                  Exoneration is when a person is freed from being guilty, and proven to be innocent after being guilty. In class, we listened to a very interesting story about teenage boys who were guilty for a terrible crime, and later they were actually proven innocent. The radio recording shows how ineffective and untrustworthy prosecution is, and how effective DNA evidence helps in finding the real criminals that commit the crimes, instead of locking up innocent people.

                    The recording we listened to what the story of 4 black teenage boys who were wrongfully convicted of the murder of a white woman. The boys were "proven"guilty and served 15 years in prison. The police investigators who were on the case practically framed the boys to admit that they did the crime, when in reality they didn't do it. After the police brought the murder case back up to reassure, they tested DNA evidence. The police finally found out the 4 teenage boys were innocent and they were exonerated. The DNA evidence helped the police to catch the real murderers, who were 2 totally different men.   

                    This story was very shocking to hear, I was suprised that the police would frame young boys just because they thought they did the crime. In the recording, it even said that one of the police officers in charge of the case made one of the boys admit he did the crime and lied to his face. He said that if he confessed to the crime, he would return the boy back to his family. When I heard that a police man actually did that to a teenage boy, I was really shocked that he would lie like that just to get a forced confession. This story also shows how trustworthy DNA evidence is and that it is very vital that it is used in every case it can be used in. It is the most accurate and efficient way to find the real criminal, and it will decrease the number of innocent people serving time in jail for a crime they didn't commit.