Texas justice

Sometimes criminal prosecution is wielded as a blunt instrument. Charles Chatman spent 26 years in jail for a rape that DNA now says he did not commit. He'll never get those years back, but at least he is still alive to be released.

The DA whose office obtained Chatman's conviction was Henry Wade, famed tough prosecutor (and the Wade in Roe v. Wade). Wade asked for the death penalty 30 times and got it 29. Would modern evidentiary tools exonerate any of those dead men?

The current Dallas courts and prosecutors at least seem to be taking justice seriously.