Quote:The FBI admits that, hey, thanks to the possible overreliance on the meaning of hair analysis, it may have been wrong in 2,000 or so cases--some involving the death penalty.

The FBI will review thousands of old cases, including some involving the death penalty, in which hair samples helped secure convictions, under an ambitious plan made public Thursday.

More than 2,000 cases the FBI processed from 1985 to 2000 will be re-examined, including some in which execution dates have been set and others in which the defendants already have died in prison. In a key concession, Justice Department officials will waive usual deadlines and procedural hurdles that often block inmates from challenging their convictions....

http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/22/fbi-to...f-cases-in

The FBI, CIA, DOJ, the IRS and the NSA, are the Keystone Cops of modern time. Marvelous.

When you can't tell the cops from the terrorists....

What's the world coming to when you cannot count on Big Brother
to put you to death without messing it up.

Another in a long line of reasons the death penalty should be abolished.

They could just go ahead and list your date of death on
your birth certificate.