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More on Kevin Keith in Ohio

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The Saturday edition of the Columbus Dispatch carried Mark Godsey's OpEd, "Death Row case warrants another look to ensure that justice is done."  Godsey is director of the Ohio Innocence Project, based in Cincinnati.  Here's an extended excerpt:If Ohio does not take action in the case of Death Row inmate Kevin Keith, it risks doing the intolerable: putting a person to death for a crime he did not commit. Compelling new evidence in Keith's case raises grave doubts about the validity of his conviction. There is overwhelming evidence suggesting that Keith was convicted and sentenced to death on the basis of faulty eyewitness identification -- one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions in this country. Indeed, eyewitness misidentification has played a role in more than 75 percent of the DNA exonerations nationwide...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).