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An oopsie conference

By cdw

Bob Ray Sanders, a columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, writes today that Twenty-four ex-Death Row prisoners from across the country will meet Friday at the state Capitol in Austin to call for a moratorium on executions in Texas and for the creation of a statewide commission on wrongful convictions, said Kurt Rosenberg, executive director of Witness to Innocence, a Philadelphia-based organization of former Death Row inmates and their families. Their news conference will be at 2 p.m. in the Speaker?s Committee Room. The men who will appear at the Capitol have served “a combined total of nearly 200 years on death row for crimes they did not commit,” Rosenberg said in a statement announcing the news conference. [h/t TMN]

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on October 29, 2008 (boomark / email).