Within a year, it had been used in a Leicestershire double-rape-and-murder case, to prove one man could not have committed the crimes and to confirm another had.
The execution of Broom - convicted of rape and murder - is also on hold ahead of a federal court hearing on 30 November.
They apply to 30 serious crimes - including murder, rape, Class A drug offences and war crimes - but double jeopardy remains in force for lesser offences.
In the Florida Panhandle town of Marianna, a farm settlement between Pensacola and Tallahassee, a 23-year-old black field hand named Claude Neal was accused of the rape and murder of a 20-year-old white woman.
Pressure mounted on Facebook following the rape and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall by a 33-year-old convicted sex offender, posing as a teenage boy, who she met on Facebook.
Only this past week, Twitter has been the main avenue for a campaign for change following the brutal rape and murder of a 17-year-old South African girl.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said in 2008-09, some 79 rape, murder and manslaughter cases in England and Wales were matched to DNA profiles taken from people who had been arrested but not convicted of any crime.
The other five accused, all adult men, are facing trial in a fast-track court on charges including murder, rape and kidnapping.
The minister will urge society to show its "collective repulsion about so-called 'honour crimes'", including murder, rape and kidnap.
Anene Booysen's 22-year-old ex-boyfriend appeared in court on Tuesday in connection with her rape and murder, and is due to appear again on 12 February, the South African Press Association (Sapa) reports.
Five men accused of the crime are on trial at a specially convened fast-track court in Delhi where they have pleaded not guilty to rape and murder charges.
Senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was convicted of murder, abduction, rape and torture, and sentenced to death.
Under the bill, which passed 286-132 on Thursday, teenagers accused of murder, aggravated assault, rape, major drug violations, and armed robbery would be tried in adult court, unless the attorney general ruled their cases should be handled in juvenile court.
In its landmark ruling in April, the court - set up in 2002 to try those who bore the greatest responsibility for the war in which some 50, 000 people were killed - found Taylor guilty on 11 counts, relating to atrocities that included rape and murder.
Police figures put the murder rate in 2007-08 at more than 38 per 100, 000 and rape at more than 75 per 100, 000.
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