rave, I'm taking this as one of those places in life that many people do not and never will get, unless circumstances place them into those sitches.
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:55:10 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man I sit on the Reader Advisory board for our local newspaper with twelve of my fellow citizen-commentators. We meet monthly. My fellows are bright, intelligent people who all sit and stare at a me blankly whenever I confuse them with the facts. Innocent men have been sent to death row and have been put to death. I have developed a default position that helps me do my job: I assume management knows the truth and they do what they do anyway. I assume the same about the not-so-great state of Texas. ~(no) rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella" <tdli...@...> wrote: > > From: African-Americans in Higher Education > [mailto:afam...@...] On Behalf Of John Lindsay > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 11:03 AM > To: afam...@... > Subject: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man > > > > > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:42:46 -0500 > From: i...@... > To: jcli...@... > Subject: Texas Executed an Innocent Man > > > > > > > > > > Innocence Project News August 31, 2009 > <http://ip.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/11315.jpg> > > > > > > > New Reports Show that Texas Executed an Innocent Man in 2004 > > > Cameron Todd Willingham > <http://ip.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/11317.jpg> > > A new investigation shows that Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in > Texas in 2004 after spending 12 years on death row, was innocent. An > exhaustive report published today in the New Yorker deconstructs the case > against Willingham and finds that all evidence used against him was false. > > "There can no longer be any doubt that an innocent person has been > executed," Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck said today. "The > question now turns to how we can stop it from happening again." > > Read <http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=btUKZpvJNIB3LN3Dgb9qXA..> the full New > Yorker story here. > > Willingham was convicted in 1992 of setting a fire that killed his three > children (including two-year-old Amber, pictured on Willingham's shoulders). > He proclaimed his innocence throughout his trial and refused an offer to > plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, saying "I ain't gonna plead to > something I didn't do, especially killing my own kids." > > > The new report comes three years after the Innocence Project released > analysis from the nation's leading arson experts that the evidence against > Willingham was invalid. Documents obtained by the Innocence Project also > show that Texas officials ignored convincing evidence of Willingham's > innocence in the days leading up to his execution. The Innocence Project > submitted this evidence of forensic error to the Texas Forensic Science > Commission, which agreed to investigate the case in 2007. > > Last week, an independent arson expert contracted by the commission > submitted his report, finding that the arson evidence in Willingham's case > was wrong. The commission is reviewing the report and will release its > findings next year. > > For <http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=B_serkI_X44a_l-tygTiLA..> background on > the case and links to media coverage, video and more, visit the Innocence > Project website. > > <http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=Yh_n8pchqpnB6HnXC-4oFw..> Share on fb > <http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=WxK9KAN2dfMoEOs829esgA..> Tweet This > > > > _____ > > The Innocence Project - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law > 100 Fifth Ave. 3rd Floor - New York, NY 10011 > <http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=VA4OKX_DytNsKRqWGSsoqQ..> > www.innocenceproject.org > > > > > > > > footer_gif <http://ip.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/10475.gif> > <http://ip.convio.net/site/PixelServer?j=md2sebtn7b9eJ88lYJEcMg..> > > Manage > <http://ip.convio.net/site/CO?i=AKJcnp3OICuRteR87NRr1vqtahJvBd-Y&cid=0> > your email subscriptions / Donate to the > <http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=qoH14mK8oD99Pww6CfWADw..> Innocence Project > / Visit our <http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=3uqlfuwIElavCXp5z-O3Vw..> > website > > > > > > <http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=3lH1pZqumAGfYnLRHSvxyA..> Powered by Convio. > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_faster:082009
