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A Missouri moratorium coming?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Back to the regularly scheduled postings.  Missouri considering a moratorium: A State House committee conducted a hearing today on a bill that would place a 2-year moratorium on executions in Missouri. Dennis Fritz of Kansas City was convicted of murder in Oklahoma in the early 1980’s. Though not sentenced to death, his friend and alleged partner in crime, Ron Williamson, was. Both were later exonerated through DNA evidence. Their plight was later chronicled in author John Grisham’s non-fiction book “The Innocent Man.” Fritz testified today before the House Committee on Crime Prevention and Public Safety. “There are many, many, many other people out there; it’s my opinion, on Death Row, that are truly innocent of the crime that they’re doing time for,” Fritz said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 02, 2008 (boomark / email).