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Innocence project works with Congress, State Legislatures and local leaders to pass laws and policies to make sure there are no more wrongful convictions and so the innocent can receive justice much easier.

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The Innocence Project's purpose is to exonerate the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustices.

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My opinion on, the effort to halt all executions in which DNA evidence has not been analyzed, is that they are doing the right thing by getting innocent people out of the bad situation they are in. Also, they let those people have a voice when they say they aren't guilty.

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The Justice System compensates people who were wrongly imprisoned only if they served for more than 25 years and the conviction was overturned by the DNA evidence. The justice system should compensate everyone who was wrongly imprisoned, even if they have not served 25 years but they do need to be proven innocent.

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If I was wrongly convicted of a crime and then wrongly imprisoned I would feel very upset and mad because I had nothing to do with the crime and I couldn't speak up for myself.

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https://www.innocenceproject.org/policy/#:~:text=The%20Innocence%20Project's%20policy%20department,the%20innocent%20to%20receive%20justice.&text=The%20Innocence%20Project's%20policy%20priorities%20reflect%20the%20lessons%20learned%20from%20DNA%20exonerations.

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https://www.innocenceproject.org/about/
https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/thomas-haynesworth/

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The crime occured on January 3,1984: a 20-year-old white woman was raped at knifepoint in a day-care center in Richmond's East End by a young black male. Four more white women were victims of rapes or attempted rapes within a one-mile radius of the first rape fitting the description of the same person. Thomas was convicted on July 12, 1984.

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Was wrongfully convicted of multiple counts of rape. Also Sodomy, Abduction, Use of firearm, and Attempted Robbery.

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Rape victims testified that Haynesworth was the attacker. The person they described was 5'10 and Thomas is only 5'6 1/2.

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They did not use the DNA evidence in the original case because they never revisited it after he was arrested and convicted of the charges.

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Thomas Haynesworth served 27 years before being exonerated on December 6, 2011.

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The crime occured in Virginia ,Thomas Haynesworth was compensated and his payment will be approximately $37,000 for each year he was in prison, but, this is well below the per-year federal standard. The cap of compensation is 20 years.

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11520282/thomas-haynesworth-settlement-netflix/#:~:text=Unlike%20the%20previous%20five%20episodes,%2450%2C000%20per%2Dyear%20federal%20standard.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2017/03/14/what-do-states-owe-people-who-are-wrongfully-convicted#:~:text=A%20judge%20vacating%20a%20conviction,was%20overturned%20by%20DNA%20evidence.

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My opinion of the case is that they messed up by never revisiting the case and Haynesworth had to go to jail for something he was very wrongfully convicted of. They also denied his parole numerous times even after the semen sample that was in the rape victims body matched another person and not Haynesworth.