RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Martin Baxter]

Bosco, one of the many things I've learned in my years on the Internet is that 
there are a LOT of stupid people out there.

"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: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:15:51 -0700
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man















 





  What turns my stomach even more is in spite of the 
overwhelming evidence that the system is broken most people think it works well.

Stupid people, they ruin it for the rest of us. 

B

--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Keith Johnson  wrote:

From: Keith Johnson 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 11:32 PM






 


  
Turns your stomach, doesn't it, that a state can do so much wrong it *needs* to 
have such high payouts!

- Original Message -
From: "Bosco Bosco" 
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 12:19:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man







 





  In regards to the hideousness of the Texas "Justice" System

http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20090904/ ap_on_re_ us/us_exoneree_ millionaires

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Keith Johnson  wrote:

From: Keith Johnson 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 11:18 PM






 


  
>From what I understand of Pennsylvania, I think Texas is a better choice. 
>Despite its lingering racism, like many states down that way, it at least has 
>a longer history of whites and blacks mixing in more areas and ways than some 
>of the Northern or upper Midwestern states.

- Original Message -
From: "Tracey de Morsella" 
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:55:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man







 





  








And you ask me why I do not want to move there.  It seems worst
than Pennsyltucky, where I am from.   That being said, I’ve been to Texas
several times and people were very nice to me.  However, I never ran afoul of
the law 

 





From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
[mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson

Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:38 PM

To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com

Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man





 











Yeah,
I know. I was born and raised in Texas, after all. My late father ran afoul of
its system when trying to vote back in the '40s, and having local officials try
to apply a poll tax to him. I dealt with the DWB thing, and have lots of
friends who've run afoul of the law in many ways--none to the level of being on
death row, thank God.



The abusive legal system, with its  paternalistic/ ultra-conservati ve/
racist workings, has always been a sad legacy to a state that, conservative
leanings aside, has a lot of really great things to offer.



- Original Message -

From: "Bosco Bosco" 

To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com

Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern

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 
  wrote:
  

  From: Keith Johnson 

  Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

  To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.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" 

  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 hav

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Bosco Bosco]

What turns my stomach even more is in spite of the overwhelming evidence that 
the system is broken most people think it works well.

Stupid people, they ruin it for the rest of us. 

B

--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Keith Johnson  wrote:

From: Keith Johnson 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 11:32 PM






 





  Turns your stomach, doesn't it, that a state can do so much 
wrong it *needs* to have such high payouts!

- Original Message -
From: "Bosco Bosco" 
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 12:19:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man







 





  In regards to the hideousness of the Texas "Justice" System

http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20090904/ ap_on_re_ us/us_exoneree_ millionaires

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Keith Johnson  wrote:

From: Keith Johnson 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 11:18 PM






 


  From what I understand of Pennsylvania, I think Texas is a 
better choice. Despite its lingering racism, like many states down that way, it 
at least has a longer history of whites and blacks mixing in more areas and 
ways than some of the Northern or upper Midwestern states.

- Original Message -
From: "Tracey de Morsella" 
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:55:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man







 





  







And you ask me why I do not want to move there.  It seems worst
than Pennsyltucky, where I am from.   That being said, I’ve been to Texas
several times and people were very nice to me.  However, I never ran afoul of
the law 

 





From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
[mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson

Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:38 PM

To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com

Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man





 











Yeah,
I know. I was born and raised in Texas, after all. My late father ran afoul of
its system when trying to vote back in the '40s, and having local officials try
to apply a poll tax to him. I dealt with the DWB thing, and have lots of
friends who've run afoul of the law in many ways--none to the level of being on
death row, thank God.



The abusive legal system, with its  paternalistic/ ultra-conservati ve/
racist workings, has always been a sad legacy to a state that, conservative
leanings aside, has a lot of really great things to offer.



- Original Message -

From: "Bosco Bosco" 

To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com

Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern

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 
  wrote:
  

  From: Keith Johnson 

  Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

  To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.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" 

  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  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?
  
  
  

  

  

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Keith Johnson]

Turns your stomach, doesn't it, that a state can do so much wrong it *needs* to 
have such high payouts! 

- Original Message - 
From: "Bosco Bosco"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 12:19:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man 






In regards to the hideousness of the Texas "Justice" System 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_re_us/us_exoneree_millionaires 

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Keith Johnson  wrote: 



From: Keith Johnson  
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 11:18 PM 






>From what I understand of Pennsylvania, I think Texas is a better choice. 
>Despite its lingering racism, like many states down that way, it at least has 
>a longer history of whites and blacks mixing in more areas and ways than some 
>of the Northern or upper Midwestern states. 

- Original Message - 
From: "Tracey de Morsella"  
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:55:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man 









And you ask me why I do not want to move there. It seems worst than 
Pennsyltucky, where I am from. That being said, I’ve been to Texas several 
times and people were very nice to me. However, I never ran afoul of the law 





From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On 
Behalf Of Keith Johnson 
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:38 PM 
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man 









Yeah, I know. I was born and raised in Texas, after all. My late father ran 
afoul of its system when trying to vote back in the '40s, and having local 
officials try to apply a poll tax to him. I dealt with the DWB thing, and have 
lots of friends who've run afoul of the law in many ways--none to the level of 
being on death row, thank God. 

The abusive legal system, with its paternalistic/ ultra-conservati ve/ racist 
workings, has always been a sad legacy to a state that, conservative leanings 
aside, has a lot of really great things to offer. 

- Original Message - 
From: "Bosco Bosco"  
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
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  wrote: 


From: Keith Johnson  
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man 
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.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"  
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 






Innocence Project News August 31, 

RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Martin Baxter]

DAY-UM.

"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: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:19:25 -0700
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man















 





  In regards to the hideousness of the Texas "Justice" System

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_re_us/us_exoneree_millionaires

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Keith Johnson  wrote:

From: Keith Johnson 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 11:18 PM






 


  
>From what I understand of Pennsylvania, I think Texas is a better choice. 
>Despite its lingering racism, like many states down that way, it at least has 
>a longer history of whites and blacks mixing in more areas and ways than some 
>of the Northern or upper Midwestern states.

- Original Message -
From: "Tracey de Morsella" 
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:55:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man







 





  








And you ask me why I do not want to move there.  It seems worst
than Pennsyltucky, where I am from.   That being said, I’ve been to Texas
several times and people were very nice to me.  However, I never ran afoul of
the law 

 





From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
[mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson

Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:38 PM

To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com

Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man





 











Yeah,
I know. I was born and raised in Texas, after all. My late father ran afoul of
its system when trying to vote back in the '40s, and having local officials try
to apply a poll tax to him. I dealt with the DWB thing, and have lots of
friends who've run afoul of the law in many ways--none to the level of being on
death row, thank God.



The abusive legal system, with its  paternalistic/ ultra-conservati ve/
racist workings, has always been a sad legacy to a state that, conservative
leanings aside, has a lot of really great things to offer.



- Original Message -

From: "Bosco Bosco" 

To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com

Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern

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 
  wrote:
  

  From: Keith Johnson 

  Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

  To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.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" 

  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  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  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

 

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Bosco Bosco]

In regards to the hideousness of the Texas "Justice" System

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_re_us/us_exoneree_millionaires

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Keith Johnson  wrote:

From: Keith Johnson 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 11:18 PM






 





  From what I understand of Pennsylvania, I think Texas is a 
better choice. Despite its lingering racism, like many states down that way, it 
at least has a longer history of whites and blacks mixing in more areas and 
ways than some of the Northern or upper Midwestern states.

- Original Message -
From: "Tracey de Morsella" 
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:55:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man







 





  







And you ask me why I do not want to move there.  It seems worst
than Pennsyltucky, where I am from.   That being said, I’ve been to Texas
several times and people were very nice to me.  However, I never ran afoul of
the law 

 





From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
[mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson

Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:38 PM

To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com

Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man





 











Yeah,
I know. I was born and raised in Texas, after all. My late father ran afoul of
its system when trying to vote back in the '40s, and having local officials try
to apply a poll tax to him. I dealt with the DWB thing, and have lots of
friends who've run afoul of the law in many ways--none to the level of being on
death row, thank God.



The abusive legal system, with its  paternalistic/ ultra-conservati ve/
racist workings, has always been a sad legacy to a state that, conservative
leanings aside, has a lot of really great things to offer.



- Original Message -

From: "Bosco Bosco" 

To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com

Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern

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 
  wrote:
  

  From: Keith Johnson 

  Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

  To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.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" 

  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  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  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
  
  

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Keith Johnson]

>From what I understand of Pennsylvania, I think Texas is a better choice. 
>Despite its lingering racism, like many states down that way, it at least has 
>a longer history of whites and blacks mixing in more areas and ways than some 
>of the Northern or upper Midwestern states. 

- Original Message - 
From: "Tracey de Morsella"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:55:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man 









And you ask me why I do not want to move there. It seems worst than 
Pennsyltucky, where I am from. That being said, I’ve been to Texas several 
times and people were very nice to me. However, I never ran afoul of the law 





From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Keith Johnson 
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:38 PM 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man 









Yeah, I know. I was born and raised in Texas, after all. My late father ran 
afoul of its system when trying to vote back in the '40s, and having local 
officials try to apply a poll tax to him. I dealt with the DWB thing, and have 
lots of friends who've run afoul of the law in many ways--none to the level of 
being on death row, thank God. 

The abusive legal system, with its paternalistic/ultra-conservative/ racist 
workings, has always been a sad legacy to a state that, conservative leanings 
aside, has a lot of really great things to offer. 

- Original Message - 
From: "Bosco Bosco"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
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  wrote: 


From: Keith Johnson  
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"  
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 





Innocence Project News August 31, 2009






New Reports Show that Texas Executed an Innocent Man in 2004

Cameron Todd Willingham 

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 

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Keith Johnson]

Texas is a complicated state. It is conservative, and by-the-book, and all 
that. It produced George Bush, after all! :) People are very insular and don't 
often see the need to know a lot about the rest of the country. There are areas 
of shocking racism and intolerance. 

But despite that, it has a lot to offer, and is a state with a lot to offer. To 
start with, it's an amazing place geographically. It is, after all, huge, 
spanning 800+ miles at its greatest width, covering two time zones, and has 
everything from deserts to mountains, coastal regions to forests, to rolling 
hills and caves amidst fertile lands of fruits and vegetables. It also has the 
distinction of having been its own country, something not every state can say, 
and its large oil and natural gas deposits don't hurt its financial status (can 
you see I love it despite it?) So many native Texans just don't think anywhere 
else in the country measures up to it. 

It has some great cities, from Dallas (with it's more self-conscious 
cosmopolitan feel, which some like), ot my hometown of Fort Worth (a true 
cowboy town that's at once quaint and comfortable feeling), down to Houston, 
(which is way more cosmopolitan and cultured, and fun, than Dallas), over to 
Austin-San Antonio region (the Riverwalk, UT Austin and all the culture of that 
city), and up to the cities of the Panhandle. 
You can spend your whole life in Texas and experience an incredible variety of 
lifestyles, locales, and people, due to its mix of European, African, and Latin 
cultures. It also has some of the best food I've tasted anywhere--its soul food 
puts to shame anything I've tasted here in the South, it's Mexican and Tex-Mex 
is amazing, and its barbecue sublime. 

There's also a true genuine nature to many Texans. They can be narrow-minded 
and bigoted, ignorant and intolerant, true. But they can also be welcoming, 
disarmingly charming, good-natured, and unselfconsciously real. 
I've often said of George Bush Jr. that, while I hate everything he stood for, 
and wouldn't want to be fast buddies with him, I bet he'd be a fun guy to hang 
with for awhile. Even the Obama's comment on how genuinely nice he and his wife 
are. There are a lot of Texans like that. 

And, i have to love the cowboy culture, which colors the state in everything 
from its language to clothing to its cooking. It's fun to see black guys, 
mexican guys, and white guys walking around with Tony Lama boots, big wide belt 
buckles, and ten-gallon hats on their heads. My hometown has preserved its 
heritage (it was the start of one of the Chisolm Trail routes) and it is so 
much fun to experience that. 

Oh--and if you can't tell, there's something in the air or water or oil in that 
state that infects all natives. I'm twenty-two years away from having lived 
there, but still call myself a Texan. It has a lot of bad, yeah, but it has a 
lot of good too that charms me. Despite its conservatism, I'd have no qualms 
moving back. I might rage and complain about the state, but I could make a life 
there while I hopefully do some good to help make it a better place to live. 

Yippie-kie-yay!!! 




But it i 
- Original Message - 
From: "Tracey de Morsella"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:55:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man 









And you ask me why I do not want to move there. It seems worst than 
Pennsyltucky, where I am from. That being said, I’ve been to Texas several 
times and people were very nice to me. However, I never ran afoul of the law 





From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Keith Johnson 
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:38 PM 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man 









Yeah, I know. I was born and raised in Texas, after all. My late father ran 
afoul of its system when trying to vote back in the '40s, and having local 
officials try to apply a poll tax to him. I dealt with the DWB thing, and have 
lots of friends who've run afoul of the law in many ways--none to the level of 
being on death row, thank God. 

The abusive legal system, with its paternalistic/ultra-conservative/ racist 
workings, has always been a sad legacy to a state that, conservative leanings 
aside, has a lot of really great things to offer. 

- Original Message - 
From: "Bosco Bosco"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
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

RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Martin Baxter]

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  wrote:

From: Keith Johnson 
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" 
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  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  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.

RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Tracey de Morsella]

And you ask me why I do not want to move there.  It seems worst than 
Pennsyltucky, where I am from.   That being said, I’ve been to Texas several 
times and people were very nice to me.  However, I never ran afoul of the law 

 

From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Keith Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:38 PM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

 






Yeah, I know. I was born and raised in Texas, after all. My late father ran 
afoul of its system when trying to vote back in the '40s, and having local 
officials try to apply a poll tax to him. I dealt with the DWB thing, and have 
lots of friends who've run afoul of the law in many ways--none to the level of 
being on death row, thank God.

The abusive legal system, with its  paternalistic/ultra-conservative/ racist 
workings, has always been a sad legacy to a state that, conservative leanings 
aside, has a lot of really great things to offer.

- Original Message -
From: "Bosco Bosco" 
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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  wrote:


From: Keith Johnson 
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" 
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  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  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




 




 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 the full New Yorker story here 
<http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=btUKZpvJNIB3LN3Dgb9qXA..> . 

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 obt

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Keith Johnson]

Yeah, I know. I was born and raised in Texas, after all. My late father ran 
afoul of its system when trying to vote back in the '40s, and having local 
officials try to apply a poll tax to him. I dealt with the DWB thing, and have 
lots of friends who've run afoul of the law in many ways--none to the level of 
being on death row, thank God. 

The abusive legal system, with its paternalistic/ultra-conservative/ racist 
workings, has always been a sad legacy to a state that, conservative leanings 
aside, has a lot of really great things to offer. 

- Original Message - 
From: "Bosco Bosco"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
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  wrote: 



From: Keith Johnson  
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"  
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 






Innocence Project News August 31, 2009







New Reports Show that Texas Executed an Innocent Man in 2004

Cameron Todd Willingham 

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 

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Bosco Bosco]

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  wrote:

From: Keith Johnson 
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" 
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  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  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 

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[L Freeman]

Texas executed an innocent man. 

In other news, the sky is blue and Dick Cheney is a liar. 

Seriously though, the only surprise for me on this one is that he wasn't a man 
of color. I am sure that is a whole other can of worms waiting to be opened. 

I don't get what the big deal is about Life in prison without parole. It is bad 
enough to have falsely imprison someone, but at least it can be addressed WITH 
the person wronged. 

--- On Mon, 8/31/09, Keith Johnson  wrote:

From: Keith Johnson 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 9:25 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" 
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  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  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
backgr

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Mr. Worf]

We are the one of the few countries that still does the death penalty and it
hasn't changed anything. Why are we still doing it? Collectively we have as
many people in jail as a large state.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> 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" 
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.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  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...@multiculturaladvantage.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...@innocenceproject.org
>>> To: jcli...@msn.com
>>> Subject: Texas Executed an Innocent Man
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [image: Innocence Project News August 31, 2009]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *New Reports Show that Texas Executed an Innocent Man in 2004*
>>>
>>> [image: Cameron Todd Willingham]
>>>
>>> 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<http://ip.convio.net/site/R?i=btUKZpvJNIB3LN3Dgb9qXA..>
>>> .** *
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
&g

Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Keith Johnson]

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"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.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 < hellomahog...@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...@multiculturaladvantage.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...@innocenceproject.org 
To: jcli...@msn.com 
Subject: Texas Executed an Innocent Man 





Innocence Project News August 31, 2009






New Reports Show that Texas Executed an Innocent Man in 2004

Cameron Todd Willingham 

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 . 

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RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Bosco Bosco]

What's incredibly sad is this not the first, second or third time this has 
happened. There are more than a few cases of folks being tried, convicted and 
in more than a few cases executed for crimes that they were later cleared of. 
Texas leads the nation in death penalties. We also lead the nation in cases 
that are later overturned because DNA and other evidence proves innocence. In 
spite of the overwhelming evidence that the justice system here is one of the 
most broken in the nation, an overwhelming majority of Texans believe the 
system is relatively good. It's beyond disturbing. Barring some overwhelming 
conversion to critical thinking, the idiots that populate this state will keep 
the broken system as their preferred method of justice. 

It disturbs me beyond words.

Bosco

--- On Mon, 8/31/09, Martin Baxter  wrote:

From: Martin Baxter 
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man
To: "SciFiNoir2" 
Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 4:28 PM






 





  


(speechless)

"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: cdemorsella@ yahoo.com
CC: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
From: tdli...@multicultur aladvantage. com
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:38:04 -0700
Subject: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man















 





  












From: African-Americans
in Higher Education [mailto:AFAMHED@ 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.
    
 



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[Martin Baxter]

(speechless)

"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: cdemorse...@yahoo.com
CC: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
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From: African-Americans
in Higher Education [mailto:afam...@listserv.muohio.edu] On Behalf Of John
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Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 11:03 AM

To: afam...@listserv.muohio.edu

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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:42:46 -0500

From: i...@innocenceproject.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.

 



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Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Mr. Worf]

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  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...@multiculturaladvantage.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...@innocenceproject.org
>> To: jcli...@msn.com
>> Subject: Texas Executed an Innocent Man
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Innocence Project News August 31, 2009]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *New Reports Show that Texas Executed an Innocent Man in 2004*
>>
>> [image: Cameron Todd Willingham]
>>
>> 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
>> .
>>
>> [image: Share on fb]
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>>
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Re: [scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Mr. Worf]

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...@multiculturaladvantage.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...@innocenceproject.org
> To: jcli...@msn.com
> Subject: Texas Executed an Innocent Man
>
>
>
> [image: Innocence Project News August 31, 2009]
>
>
>
>
>
> *New Reports Show that Texas Executed an Innocent Man in 2004*
>
> [image: Cameron Todd Willingham]
>
> 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
> .
>
> [image: Share on fb]
>  [image: Tweet This]
>
>
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>
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[scifinoir2] FW: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

[Tracey de Morsella]

From: African-Americans in Higher Education
[mailto:afam...@listserv.muohio.edu] On Behalf Of John Lindsay
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 11:03 AM
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Subject: [AFAMHED] Texas Executed an Innocent Man

 


Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:42:46 -0500
From: i...@innocenceproject.org
To: jcli...@msn.com
Subject: Texas Executed an Innocent Man




 




 Innocence Project News August 31, 2009
 


 

 

New Reports Show that Texas Executed an Innocent Man in 2004


 Cameron Todd Willingham
 

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.

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