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Florida Inmate Facing Imminent Execution Despite Evidence of Witness Tampering by Prosecution

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/florida-inmate-facing-imminent-execution-despite-evidence-witness-tampering-prosecution Florida Inmate Facing Imminent Execution Despite Evidence of Witness Tampering by Prosecution Posted: November 11, 2008 in Arbitrariness Innocence What's New A Florida inmate faces execution despite new revelations that the state prompted a trial witness to lie. Inmate Wayne Tompkins was to be executed in Florida on October 28, 2008, but was granted a stay of execution to allow time for the state Supreme Court to review his case. On November 7, the court denied Tompkins' appeal, even though the court acknowledged that a state witness, a jailhouse informant, admitted to providing false testimony at Tompkins' original trial in 1985...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).