We hope you will read Kirk Bloodsworth's oped in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. Bloodsworth was convicted of murder in 1983 and sentenced to death by two juries. He received a full pardon in 1993, based on DNA testing that proved he could not have committed the crime.

But it was not until 2003, almost twenty years after the murder, that the prosecutor ran tests on the DNA to see if the real killer in Bloodsworth's case could be identified. Sure enough, the DNA led authorities to real killer. The real killer was arrested for robbery, attempted rape, and attempted murder a few weeks after the crime for which Mr. Bloodsworth was falsely accused. He is serving a 45 year sentence for that crime. But think about it: Had the DNA testing occurred earlier, and had Mr. Bloodsworth not been falsely accused, another serious crime could have been avoided.

The point: DNA not only frees the innocent, it convicts the guilty. Please, read Mr. Bloodsworth's plea for the passage of the Innocence Protection Act.