Maybe the Old West mindset is still hanging on there? The old adage "Convict 'em today, hang 'em tomorrow" is a dog that don't hunt in modern times.
"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: ironpi...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:05:01 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man Texas leads the rest of the first world combined in executions. I mean like every other first world country combined execute fewer people than the state of Texas. I kid you not, sir. --- On Mon, 8/31/09, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote: From: Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 11:25 PM It's not just Texas. Georgia's bad too. We have the Troy Davis case here now, the one that just went to the Supreme Court. Seven of the nine people who testified against Davis 20 years ago now say they were wrong or just plain lying, but the courts wanted to kill him anyway.And as always, guess who on the High Court was in favor of letting the execution go forward? Uncle Tom... Texas, Florida, Georgia, are among the worst. But Alabama, the Carolinas, Mississippi, are bad too. It's one reason among many I can never support the death penalty... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <HelloMahogany@ gmail.com> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 5:03:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man One more thing. They also have a few judges that have given people 99 years over crimes that were misdemeanors. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Mr. Worf <hellomahogany@ gmail.com> wrote: Texas has always played fast and loose with the law. I have a young cousin that served 8 years (just got out a few months ago) for a robbery but wasn't there at all. After 8 years and four appeals he was finally released. Can you imagine how difficult that was if he was on death row? Texas wasn't capturing dna evidence until recently. How many people have served time unjustly? On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Tracey de Morsella <tdli...@multicultur aladvantage. com> wrote: From: African-Americans in Higher Education [mailto:afam...@listserv. MUOHIO.EDU] On Behalf Of John Lindsay Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 11:03 AM To: afam...@listserv. MUOHIO.EDU Subject: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:42:46 -0500 From: i...@innocenceproje ct.org To: jcli...@msn. com Subject: Texas Executed an Innocent Man New Reports Show that Texas Executed an Innocent Man in 2004 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 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 background on the case and links to media coverage, video and more, visit the Innocence Project website. The Innocence Project — Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law 100 Fifth Ave. 3rd Floor - New York, NY 10011 www.innocenceprojec t.org Manage your email subscriptions / Donate to the Innocence Project / Visit our website -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! 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