“DNA Testing and the Death Penalty.” American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, https://www.aclu.org/other/dna-testing-and-death-penalty#:~:text=In%20the%20U.S.%2C%20as%20of,are%20not%20sentenced%20to%20death.
“DNA Testing and the Death Penatly” is published by ACLU. “The American Civil Liberities Union was founded in 1920 and is our nation’s guadian of liberty” according to ACLU. “The ACLU works in the courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserver the individual rughtsand liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” The organization’s attitude towards people’s rights is very strong and professional. The organizations strives to hold the criminal justice system accountable for the mistakes they make and to keep the criminal justice system from making mistakes. We see this by the amount of federal advocacy, supreme court cases, court battles, and the information that they keep to post and file. The ACLU’s authority is to help continue the defense of people’s rights and freedoms. The ACLU’s primary audience is for “all Americans in courts across the country” as stated by the ACLU. Other audiences the ACLU has is the “left-leaning demographic such as immigrants, labor unions, LGBT people, the poor, prisoners, and the severly mentally ill” as stated by the InfluenceWatch. The ACLU’s purpose is to inform the people of the mistakes that happen in the criminal justice system,for the people to knowledgable and informed, and to fight for what’s right. The ACLU’s genre is formal and informative. They use this genre specifically to be able to inform all Americans regardless of their race or socio-economic status. As stated earlier, “left-leaning demographic such as immigrants, labor unions, LGBT people, the poor, prisoners, and the severly mentally ill”. Even though the article does not specifically show emotions, it uses statistics to help bring to light the injustice of the courts. Using certain evidence such as actual cases. For example, “He died of cancer in January 2000, while on death row before the completion of the DNA test results that proved his innocence ten months later.” ACLU uses other sources such as the Innocence Project to help support and verify their information. This article by the ACLU shows how DNA advancements helped exonerations.
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