Thursday, July 3, 2008

DNA evidence frees inmate after 20 years on death row

A 46-year old US inmate who languished on death row for more than 20 years has been freed after DNA tests called into question his murder conviction.

Paul Gregory House was sentenced to death in 1986 for the rape and murder of Carolyne Muncey, a housewife and mother in the southern state of Tennessee.

DNA testing was not available at the time of the crime, but genetic tests performed since his conviction failed to determine conclusively that House was the perpetrator of the crime.

The DNA testing has also shown that he is not the father of his 16 children and that he should probably change his name to Pauline.

Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming

A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming.

Almost half of the televisions sold around the globe so far this year have been plasma or LCD TVs.

Experts say the increase in demand has been caused by consumer's desire to watch Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' in wide screen.