This statistic alone demonstrates that police and prosecutors can be wrong. When we are dealing with capital crimes, if DNA evidence can help establish guilt beyond any reasonable doubt it should be used. The issue of DNA testing has brought the morality of capital punishment to the surface once again and this time with a vengeance. It is a difficult issue but we must seek God's mind on this. Talionic justice is not a harsh principle of justice, for it established the premise that the punishment should fit the crime.
Justice demands payment.
Allow me to bring these two strands together. If DNA testing can be used to establish guilt, then it should be universally used. Justice is one of God's core values and DNA testing can help administer that justice. The issue for capital punishment is not deterrence. It is the establishment of guilt and the administration of God's justice.