DNA For Inmates Proposed

{Frankfort, Kentucky}…Republican state Senator John Schickel of Union, in northern Kentucky, has proposed allowing more inmates around the state to have access to DNA testing. The legislation would allow those accused of only the most serious felonies or crimes classified as violent to request testing. Currently, the state limits DNA testing to inmates on death row. Schickel says he thinks it is "kind of strange" to offer DNA testing to death row inmates, but not to others.