False witness: why is the US still using hypnosis to convict criminals?

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For decades, US law enforcement has used ‘forensic hypnosis’ to help solve crimes – yet despite growing evidence that it is junk science, this method is still being used to send people to death row. 

The Innocence Project, which works to exonerate wrongly convicted prisoners, has used DNA testing to uncover 367 wrongful convictions almost 70% of which involved a witness misidentifying the perpetrator.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/04/false-witness-us-using-hypnosis-convict-criminals

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