Nonprofit legal group dedicated to clearing the wrongly convicted hopes DNA evidence may be used to exonerate a man 13 years after his execution.
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows death row inmate Sedley Alley. The Innocence Project hopes to use DNA evidence to exonerate Alley 13 years after his execution. If the Innocence Project succeeds with Alley, it will be the first time anyone has used such evidence to exonerate a person who has already been executed.
Collins was stationed at the former Memphis Naval Air Station in Millington when she went jogging in a nearby park on the night of July 11, 1985. Her body was discovered early the next day. She had been beaten, raped and mutilated. Scheck reached out to Alley’s daughter, April Alley, who agreed to petition for DNA evidence testing on behalf of her father’s estate.
"Watching my father die was so painful," she said."I'm hoping I can get the answer, one way or another, that I want." At the hearing last month, Assistant District Attorney Steve Jones argued the state's DNA analysis law allows only the person convicted of the crime to request testing. He also argued that even if DNA from a third party were found on some of the evidence, it would not prove Sedley Alley was innocent. Alley was convicted based on"a combination of factors that corroborated his confession," Jones said.
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