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Group Sheds Light on Wrongful Convictions

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That's the title of a report from News 8 Austin concerning a weekend rally in Austin.  LINK  It was prepared by Jenna Hiller.  News 8 Austin is the Time Warner Cable 24-hour local news channel for central Texas.A small, but determined group marched to the Capitol Saturday hoping to bring awareness to the number of wrongful convictions in the United States. Austin's Freedom March was one of 17 across the country. According to group organizers, Texas leads the nation in verified wrongful convictions, with 38 people exonerated by DNA evidence, so far. "We've seen 133 people exonerated and released from death row, due to evidence of their wrongful conviction, since 1973 and that includes nine here in Texas," Kristin House, with the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 29, 2009 (boomark / email).