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Exonerations in Texas Force State to the "Tipping Point"

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Eighteen people have been exonerated of serious violent crimes from a single Texas county through DNA-testing in recent years. James Woodward was the latest person to be freed from confinement from Dallas County. He spent 27 years in prison for the wrongful conviction of raping and murdering his girlfriend in 1981. Statewide in Texas there have been 30 such exonerations. As a partial response, state Senator Rodney Ellis has called for a summit on innocence to take place on May 8, beginning in the Texas Senate chamber. Sen. Ellis said, "We've reached a tipping point on wrongful convictions in Texas. Nobody can seriously doubt that there's a problem, and next week leaders from across our criminal justice system will come together to start solving it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Death Penalty Information Center on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).