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Texas kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Texas tonight killed Gregory Wright.  DNA seemingly indicates that Mr. Wright’s co-defendant, and not he, was responsible for the murder at bar. Proclaiming his innocence, condemned prisoner Gregory Wright was executed Thursday evening for the fatal stabbing and robbery of a Dallas-area woman who tried to help him when he was homeless. “There’s been a lot of confusion who done this,” Wright said from the death chamber gurney. Then, as he has for years, he declared a fellow homeless man, John Adams, was responsible for the murder of Donna Vick. “I never sold anything to anyone. My only act or involvement was not telling on him. John Adams was the one that killed Donna Vick. The evidence proves that. … I was in the bathroom when he attacked...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).