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: Capital Defense Weekly

Anniversary of a notable execution

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

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via Executed Today: On this date in 1993, Leonel Herrera was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for shooting two policemen. Herrera?s last statement averred, Herrera?s sister Norma self-published this book about the case ? keeping a promise to her executed brother. I am innocent, innocent, innocent. Make no mistake about this; I owe society nothing. Continue the struggle for human rights, helping those who are innocent, especially Mr. Graham. I am an innocent man, and something very wrong is taking place tonight. May God bless you all. I am ready. Well, Herrera wasn?t the first to go to his death maintaining his innocence. The circumstances (and circumstantial evidence) of the crime rate on the forgettable side. But Leonel Torres Herrera was a bit different from his cousins in hopeless protestation: while he died this evening, his name lived on ? in a landmark Supreme Court decision Herrera v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).