I do not believe in the death penalty at all, and apparently has not been a big deterrant from crime. And with the amount of people who are know free from death row and out of jail, because of DNA, well only an idiot savant, would think that innocence people have not been killed. (you know the poor ones). But, I do believe that they way the penal institutions are run, needs to be change. I think they should have farms, were they could work and feed themselves and give to poor states (sell to them for a lower price of course), and this way these ever increasing penal institutions could contribute back to society and help run itself. And these prisoner's "pre-release program would be cleaning up America, because with all of these prisoners, this should be the cleaniest country in the world, and no they would not be paid. They are in jail to pay a debt to society, not get paid by society. And maybe if they worked off this debts, they would not be so institutionalized to prison life. And as part of their probation, especially for those who used public defenders, they would have to pay a fine to that fund, you know help others who might need it, since it help them, and maybe these public defenders, would have the money for these DNA test. Especially since violent offenders will never be able to payback their victims. How about that as oppose to death penality ( which is very costly too)? And of course truth is sentencing.