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Dallas Morning News Calls for an End to the Death Penalty In Texas

The Dallas Morning News has reversed its century old position on the death penalty and is now calling for its abolition in Texas.Death no more: It's time to end capital punishmentSunday, April 15, 2007 Ernest Ray Willis set a fire that killed two women in Pecos County. So said Texas prosecutors who obtained a conviction in 1987 and sent Mr. Willis to death row. But it wasn't true.Seventeen years later, a federal judge overturned the conviction, finding that prosecutors had drugged Mr. Willis with powerful anti-psychotic medication during his trial and then used his glazed appearance to characterize him as "cold-hearted." They also suppressed evidence and introduced neither physical proof nor eyewitnesses in the trial ? and his court-appointed lawyers mounted a lousy defense...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Death Penalty Focus on April 15, 2007 (boomark / email).