DNA tests recently done excluded him as the person who robbed and raped a 26-year-old Dallas woman in 1979.
Dupree was just 20 when he was sentenced to 75 years in prison in 1980. Now he's 51, and the most shocking fact is that, according to the Associated Press, Texas has freed 41 wrongly convicted inmates through DNA since 2001, more than any other state.
Now I ask myself some questions:
- What is next for people like Dupree, that have been wrongly convicted and have spent many years in prison wasting their lives? They are going just to tell him "Hey, We're really sorry about this "little" mistake", and that's it?
- Now that he's 51, is he going to be able to start a new life?
- From now on is he going to have the same energy to study, work or run his own business after spending his most productive years behind bars?
- Has the government some special programs or aids for people like him?
- How people like him can recover all those wasted years?
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