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The Science of Murder - More on Larry Swearingen

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That's the title of Michael Hall's latest examination of the state's death penalty in the January Texas Monthly.  It's subtitled, "Someone killed Melissa Trotter and dumped her body in the Sam Houston National Forest. But according to six forensic experts, that someone was not Larry Swearingen."Here's the introduction to another Michael Hall must-read:Innocent men in prison often have two things in common. They stubbornly refuse to plead guilty, even if it means a reduced sentence or freedom. And they never quit trying to prove their innocence, whether it?s by writing letters to lawyers and journalists, filing writs on their own, or just camping out in the prison library studying law books or anything else that could help their cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).