DNA Test Confirms Guilt of Murderer
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From Times Wire Reports
DNA tests sought by a Virginia death row inmate hoping to avert his execution Thursday may instead have sealed his fate by confirming that his blood was under the victim’s fingernails. Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore rejected the clemency petition of condemned murderer Derek Barnabei, 33, citing DNA tests on fingernail clippings taken seven years ago from the body of Barnabei’s 17-year-old girlfriend, Sarah Wisnosky.
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