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The human costs of NM’s death row

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

New Mexico’s sole death row survivor today published perhaps one of the strongest argument to date on why that state should repeal: AS THE ONLY living survivor of New Mexico’s death row, I would like to offer a few words in support of the bill to repeal the death penalty. … I am among the ranks of 130 exonerated men and women in the United States who were almost put to death in error. My innocence and that of my three co-defendants was discovered when the killer … confessed to a priest. Others were not so fortunate and were put to death before (establishing) their innocence. … The most shocking cases are those of Charles Hudspeth (1892, Arkansas) and William Marion (1887, Nebraska). In both instances, the murder victim was found alive ? but only after the execution of these two innocent men...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).