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As Executions Set to Resume in U.S.: Another Death Row Inmate Exonerated

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

May 2, 2008 -- Diann Rust Tierney, executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, issued the following statement today in response to today?s announced exoneration out of North Carolina:?It?s been more than seven months since an execution occurred in the U.S. ? the longest de facto moratorium in our country in 25 years. And today, just as executions are set to resume in the U.S., Levon ?Bo? Jones becomes the 129th person to be freed from death row since 1976, after evidence of innocence emerged. He?s the eighth wrongly convicted death row inmate out of North Carolina alone. Nationally, there have been five death row exonerations since the current de facto moratorium began in late September. Jones is the second consecutive North Carolina man to be freed from death row after evidence of police misconduct was brought to light...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).